APPLIED: [PATCH 1/1] tunnels: fix netns vs proto registration ordering -- fix stable backport

Steve Conklin sconklin at canonical.com
Wed Aug 31 21:11:12 UTC 2011


On 08/30/2011 08:12 AM, Tim Gardner wrote:
> On 08/30/2011 06:44 AM, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
>> As per Stratos Psomadakis the backport of the upstream commit below is
>> flawed and introduces crashes when using this ipv6 tunnel type:
>>
>>    commit a14a3f90745c4831a1437528706b38daa1db4885
>>    Author: Alexey Dobriyan<adobriyan at gmail.com>
>>    Date:   Tue Feb 16 09:05:04 2010 +0000
>>
>>      tunnels: fix netns vs proto registration ordering
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft<apw at canonical.com>
>> ---
>>   net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c |    2 +-
>>   1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c
>> index 7fb3e02..53e0d51 100644
>> --- a/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c
>> +++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c
>> @@ -1466,7 +1466,7 @@ static int __init ip6_tunnel_init(void)
>>   {
>>       int  err;
>>
>> -    err = register_pernet_device(&ip6_tnl_net_ops);
>> +    err = register_pernet_gen_device(&ip6_tnl_net_id,&ip6_tnl_net_ops);
>>       if (err<  0)
>>           goto out_pernet;
>>
>
> I used 832332 as the bug number. I wonder if it'll wreck the stable
> bug tracking process, but there _was_ an entry for Lucid just waiting
> to be set to 'Fix Committed'.
>
> rtg
I created a new bug and rewrote the commit with the new bug number.

Steve




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