Patch "ip6_tunnel: set rtnl_link_ops before calling register_netdevice" has been added to the 4.5-stable tree

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

ip6_tunnel: set rtnl_link_ops before calling register_netdevice

to the 4.5-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:
ip6_tunnel-set-rtnl_link_ops-before-calling-register_netdevice.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.5 subdirectory.

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

From: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 17:17:50 -0300
Subject: ip6_tunnel: set rtnl_link_ops before calling register_netdevice

From: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit b6ee376cb0b7fb4e7e07d6cd248bd40436fb9ba6 ]

When creating an ip6tnl tunnel with ip tunnel, rtnl_link_ops is not set before ip6_tnl_create2 is called. When register_netdevice is called, there is no linkinfo attribute in the NEWLINK message because of that.

Setting rtnl_link_ops before calling register_netdevice fixes that.

---
 net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -343,12 +343,12 @@ static int ip6_tnl_create2(struct net_de
 
 	t = netdev_priv(dev);
 
+	dev->rtnl_link_ops = &ip6_link_ops;
 	err = register_netdevice(dev);
 	if (err < 0)
 		goto out;
 
 	strcpy(t->parms.name, dev->name);
-	dev->rtnl_link_ops = &ip6_link_ops;
 
 	dev_hold(dev);
 	ip6_tnl_link(ip6n, t);

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

queue-4.5/ip6_tunnel-set-rtnl_link_ops-before-calling-register_netdevice.patch