Patch "flow_dissect: call init_default_flow_dissectors() earlier" has been added to the 4.8-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

flow_dissect: call init_default_flow_dissectors() earlier

to the 4.8-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:
flow_dissect-call-init_default_flow_dissectors-earlier.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2016 11:17:30 -0800
Subject: flow_dissect: call init_default_flow_dissectors() earlier

From: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>

commit c9b8af1330198ae241cd545e1f040019010d44d9 upstream.

Andre Noll reported panics after my recent fix (commit 34fad54c2537 "net: __skb_flow_dissect() must cap its return value")

After some more headaches, Alexander root caused the problem to init_default_flow_dissectors() being called too late, in case a network driver like IGB is not a module and receives DHCP message very early.

Fix is to call init_default_flow_dissectors() much earlier, as it is a core infrastructure and does not depend on another kernel service.

---
 net/core/flow_dissector.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -945,4 +945,4 @@ static int __init init_default_flow_diss
 	return 0;
 }
 
-late_initcall_sync(init_default_flow_dissectors);
+core_initcall(init_default_flow_dissectors);

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.8/flow_dissect-call-init_default_flow_dissectors-earlier.patch