Patch "macsec: add genl family module alias" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

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

macsec: add genl family module alias

to the 4.9-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:
macsec-add-genl-family-module-alias.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

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

From: Sabrina Dubroca <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 15:36:08 +0200
Subject: macsec: add genl family module alias

From: Sabrina Dubroca <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 78362998f58c7c271e2719dcd0aaced435c801f9 ]

This helps tools such as wpa_supplicant can start even if the macsec module isn't loaded yet.

---
 drivers/net/macsec.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

@@ -3510,6 +3510,7 @@ module_init(macsec_init);
 module_exit(macsec_exit);
 
 MODULE_ALIAS_RTNL_LINK("macsec");
+MODULE_ALIAS_GENL_FAMILY("macsec");
 
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("MACsec IEEE 802.1AE");
 MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");

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

queue-4.9/macsec-add-genl-family-module-alias.patch queue-4.9/ipv6-fix-memory-leak-with-multiple-tables-during-netns-destruction.patch