[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "l2tp: add missing .owner to struct pppox_proto" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Thu Jul 25 14:41:57 UTC 2013


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

    l2tp: add missing .owner to struct pppox_proto

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.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-3.5.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 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 4b65a2bfb728d0142a80dfb8f6c4712f77e9d3d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei at trendmicro.com.cn>
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 09:02:07 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] l2tp: add missing .owner to struct pppox_proto

commit e1558a93b61962710733dc8c11a2bc765607f1cd upstream.

Add missing .owner of struct pppox_proto. This prevents the
module from being removed from underneath its users.

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei at trendmicro.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c b/net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c
index ea7e244..286fec4 100644
--- a/net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c
+++ b/net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c
@@ -1837,7 +1837,8 @@ static const struct proto_ops pppol2tp_ops = {

 static const struct pppox_proto pppol2tp_proto = {
 	.create		= pppol2tp_create,
-	.ioctl		= pppol2tp_ioctl
+	.ioctl		= pppol2tp_ioctl,
+	.owner		= THIS_MODULE,
 };

 #ifdef CONFIG_L2TP_V3
--
1.8.1.2





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