[PATCH] vti6: fix device register to report IFLA_INFO_KIND
From: David Forster <hidden>
Date: 2017-01-06 10:57:18
Subsystem:
networking [general], networking [ipsec], networking [ipv4/ipv6], the rest · Maintainers:
"David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Steffen Klassert, Herbert Xu, David Ahern, Ido Schimmel, Linus Torvalds
vti6 interface is registered before the rtnl_link_ops block is attached. As a result the resulting RTM_NEWLINK is missing IFLA_INFO_KIND. Re-order attachment of rtnl_link_ops block to fix. Signed-off-by: Dave Forster <redacted> --- net/ipv6/ip6_vti.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_vti.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_vti.c
index f4b4a4a..d82042c 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_vti.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_vti.c@@ -189,12 +189,12 @@ static int vti6_tnl_create2(struct net_device *dev) struct vti6_net *ip6n = net_generic(net, vti6_net_id); int err; + dev->rtnl_link_ops = &vti6_link_ops; err = register_netdevice(dev); if (err < 0) goto out; strcpy(t->parms.name, dev->name); - dev->rtnl_link_ops = &vti6_link_ops; dev_hold(dev); vti6_tnl_link(ip6n, t);
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