[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "net: tunnels - enable module autoloading" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    net: tunnels - enable module autoloading

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.11.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 4bb4372d46d4f31fcd300f45cec1cc8df6d45216 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no>
Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 23:21:30 +0200
Subject: net: tunnels - enable module autoloading

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");
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