From c03bb540d74d01cf10f763dd4785499eade98735 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Gundersen Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 23:21:30 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] net: tunnels - enable module autoloading [ Upstream commit f98f89a0104454f35a62d681683c844f6dbf4043 ] 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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- 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 812b183514625..4bc508f0db902 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 f6a66bb4114db..afa0824583602 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 e5a453ca302e1..f4380041f5e7b 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/sit.c +++ b/net/ipv6/sit.c @@ -1828,4 +1828,5 @@ xfrm_tunnel_failed: module_init(sit_init); module_exit(sit_cleanup); MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); +MODULE_ALIAS_RTNL_LINK("sit"); MODULE_ALIAS_NETDEV("sit0"); -- 2.47.3