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

[Tim Gardner]

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
-- 
Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com