[PATCH 4.2.y-ckt 56/70] ip6_tunnel: set rtnl_link_ops before calling register_netdevice

From: Kamal Mostafa
Date: Tue Apr 12 2016 - 17:23:32 EST


4.2.8-ckt8 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit b6ee376cb0b7fb4e7e07d6cd248bd40436fb9ba6 upstream.

When creating an ip6tnl tunnel with ip tunnel, rtnl_link_ops is not set
before ip6_tnl_create2 is called. When register_netdevice is called, there
is no linkinfo attribute in the NEWLINK message because of that.

Setting rtnl_link_ops before calling register_netdevice fixes that.

Fixes: 0b112457229d ("ip6tnl: add support of link creation via rtnl")
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c
index 2e67b66..f973fe7 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c
@@ -284,12 +284,12 @@ static int ip6_tnl_create2(struct net_device *dev)

t = netdev_priv(dev);

+ dev->rtnl_link_ops = &ip6_link_ops;
err = register_netdevice(dev);
if (err < 0)
goto out;

strcpy(t->parms.name, dev->name);
- dev->rtnl_link_ops = &ip6_link_ops;

dev_hold(dev);
ip6_tnl_link(ip6n, t);
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