[3.13.y-ckt stable] Patch "gre6: Move the setting of dev->iflink into the ndo_init functions." has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

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

    gre6: Move the setting of dev->iflink into the ndo_init functions.

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11-ckt13.

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

For more information about the 3.13.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 112aa95465c199c7c0fa1703f9da00233ec04e8b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert at secunet.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 09:19:30 +0100
Subject: gre6: Move the setting of dev->iflink into the ndo_init functions.

[ Upstream commit f03eb128e3f4276f46442d14f3b8f864f3775821 ]

Otherwise it gets overwritten by register_netdev().

Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert at secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
index bbb5ccd..3355b76 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
@@ -965,8 +965,6 @@ static void ip6gre_tnl_link_config(struct ip6_tnl *t, int set_mtu)
 	else
 		dev->flags &= ~IFF_POINTOPOINT;

-	dev->iflink = p->link;
-
 	/* Precalculate GRE options length */
 	if (t->parms.o_flags&(GRE_CSUM|GRE_KEY|GRE_SEQ)) {
 		if (t->parms.o_flags&GRE_CSUM)
@@ -1276,6 +1274,7 @@ static int ip6gre_tunnel_init(struct net_device *dev)
 		u64_stats_init(&ip6gre_tunnel_stats->syncp);
 	}

+	dev->iflink = tunnel->parms.link;

 	return 0;
 }
@@ -1477,6 +1476,8 @@ static int ip6gre_tap_init(struct net_device *dev)
 		u64_stats_init(&ip6gre_tap_stats->syncp);
 	}

+	dev->iflink = tunnel->parms.link;
+
 	return 0;
 }

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