Patch "net: Resend IGMP memberships upon peer notification." has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

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

net: Resend IGMP memberships upon peer notification.

to the 4.4-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:
net-resend-igmp-memberships-upon-peer-notification.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

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

From: Vlad Yasevich <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 08:58:08 -0400
Subject: net: Resend IGMP memberships upon peer notification.

From: Vlad Yasevich <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 37c343b4f4e70e9dc328ab04903c0ec8d154c1a4 ]

When we notify peers of potential changes, it's also good to update IGMP memberships. For example, during VM migration, updating IGMP memberships will redirect existing multicast streams to the VM at the new location.

---
 net/core/dev.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

@@ -1300,6 +1300,7 @@ void netdev_notify_peers(struct net_devi
 {
 	rtnl_lock();
 	call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_NOTIFY_PEERS, dev);
+	call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_RESEND_IGMP, dev);
 	rtnl_unlock();
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(netdev_notify_peers);

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

queue-4.4/net-resend-igmp-memberships-upon-peer-notification.patch