[PATCH] ipvs: autoload ipvs on genl access
From: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Date: 2021-10-21 13:03:27
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Subsystem:
ipvs, netfilter, networking [general], the rest · Maintainers:
Simon Horman, Julian Anastasov, Pablo Neira Ayuso, Florian Westphal, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
The kernel provides the functionality to automatically load modules providing genl families. Use this to remove the need for users to manually load the module. Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net> --- net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c
index 29ec3ef63edc..0ff94c66641f 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c@@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ #include <net/ip_vs.h> +MODULE_ALIAS_GENL_FAMILY(IPVS_GENL_NAME); + /* semaphore for IPVS sockopts. And, [gs]etsockopt may sleep. */ static DEFINE_MUTEX(__ip_vs_mutex);
base-commit: d9aaaf223297f6146d9d7f36caca927c92ab855a -- 2.33.1