netdev - Re: [PATCH] ip6_tunnel: set rtnl_link_ops before calling register

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Message-Id: <20160405.194928.376989558067711341.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 05 Apr 2016 19:49:28 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	cascardo@...hat.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ip6_tunnel: set rtnl_link_ops before calling
 register_netdevice

From: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@...hat.com>
Date: Fri,  1 Apr 2016 17:17:50 -0300

> When creating an ip6tnl tunnel with ip tunnel, rtnl_link_ops is not set
> before ip6_tnl_create2 is called. When register_netdevice is called, there
> is no linkinfo attribute in the NEWLINK message because of that.
> 
> Setting rtnl_link_ops before calling register_netdevice fixes that.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@...hat.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable.