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authorDavid Forster <dforster@brocade.com>2017-01-06 10:27:59 +0000
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2017-12-09 18:42:42 +0100
commitc73b58cfa83e6aac20f075fe1d9d94047da80a25 (patch)
tree6ede76003db61f815aad79f5a1cafecaf04aa052 /net/ipv6
parente6533243f74fd2ca85387e1d332eecdf961931e4 (diff)
vti6: fix device register to report IFLA_INFO_KIND
[ Upstream commit 93e246f783e6bd1bc64fdfbfe68b18161f69b28e ] 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 <dforster@brocade.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv6')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv6/ip6_vti.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_vti.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_vti.c
index 7ebb14def2cb..f58ad70f693e 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);