[PATCH 3.11 139/198] net: tunnels - enable module autoloading

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Thu Jul 3 09:19:42 UTC 2014


3.11.10.13 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no>

commit f98f89a0104454f35a62d681683c844f6dbf4043 upstream.

Enable the module alias hookup to allow tunnel modules to be autoloaded on demand.

This is in line with how most other netdev kinds work, and will allow userspace
to create tunnels without having CAP_SYS_MODULE.

Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 net/ipv4/ipip.c       | 1 +
 net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c | 1 +
 net/ipv6/sit.c        | 1 +
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/ipip.c b/net/ipv4/ipip.c
index b3ac3c3f6219..3780a30d720d 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ipip.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ipip.c
@@ -486,4 +486,5 @@ static void __exit ipip_fini(void)
 module_init(ipip_init);
 module_exit(ipip_fini);
 MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
+MODULE_ALIAS_RTNL_LINK("ipip");
 MODULE_ALIAS_NETDEV("tunl0");
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c
index bdbbadcfb4e1..882464d8e9b8 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Ville Nuorvala");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("IPv6 tunneling device");
 MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
+MODULE_ALIAS_RTNL_LINK("ip6tnl");
 MODULE_ALIAS_NETDEV("ip6tnl0");
 
 #ifdef IP6_TNL_DEBUG
diff --git a/net/ipv6/sit.c b/net/ipv6/sit.c
index bbe14021f80c..f89d9c16b35a 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/sit.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/sit.c
@@ -1777,4 +1777,5 @@ xfrm_tunnel_failed:
 module_init(sit_init);
 module_exit(sit_cleanup);
 MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
+MODULE_ALIAS_RTNL_LINK("sit");
 MODULE_ALIAS_NETDEV("sit0");
-- 
1.9.1





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