This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
gre6: Move the setting of dev->iflink into the ndo_init functions.
to the 3.17-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
gre6-move-the-setting-of-dev-iflink-into-the-ndo_init-functions.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.17 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Tue Nov 18 09:07:25 PST 2014
From: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 09:19:30 +0100
Subject: gre6: Move the setting of dev->iflink into the ndo_init functions.
From: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@xxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit f03eb128e3f4276f46442d14f3b8f864f3775821 ]
Otherwise it gets overwritten by register_netdev().
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
@@ -957,8 +957,6 @@ static void ip6gre_tnl_link_config(struc
else
dev->flags &= ~IFF_POINTOPOINT;
- dev->iflink = p->link;
-
/* Precalculate GRE options length */
if (t->parms.o_flags&(GRE_CSUM|GRE_KEY|GRE_SEQ)) {
if (t->parms.o_flags&GRE_CSUM)
@@ -1268,6 +1266,7 @@ static int ip6gre_tunnel_init(struct net
u64_stats_init(&ip6gre_tunnel_stats->syncp);
}
+ dev->iflink = tunnel->parms.link;
return 0;
}
@@ -1477,6 +1476,8 @@ static int ip6gre_tap_init(struct net_de
if (!dev->tstats)
return -ENOMEM;
+ dev->iflink = tunnel->parms.link;
+
return 0;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from steffen.klassert@xxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.17/vti6-use-vti6_dev_init-as-the-ndo_init-function.patch
queue-3.17/gre6-move-the-setting-of-dev-iflink-into-the-ndo_init-functions.patch
queue-3.17/sit-use-ipip6_tunnel_init-as-the-ndo_init-function.patch
queue-3.17/ip6_tunnel-use-ip6_tnl_dev_init-as-the-ndo_init-function.patch
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