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authorTom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>2014-05-15 23:21:30 +0200
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>2014-07-11 13:33:57 +0100
commit30080eb2ea49bff4101b0a3587ae26a590b32c54 (patch)
treee6a668a4f90335d5a48e623e38063d9779f3dc49
parent7343f010459a76c02ab4868a7301ae998f451a37 (diff)
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 <teg@jklm.no> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/ipip.c1
-rw-r--r--net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c1
-rw-r--r--net/ipv6/sit.c1
3 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/ipip.c b/net/ipv4/ipip.c
index 5dc51378519b..7ce6d9f48d12 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ipip.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ipip.c
@@ -909,4 +909,5 @@ 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 d19f499b0e54..ae32ff78ab31 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@
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 72a939dee503..52ce1969d9b2 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/sit.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/sit.c
@@ -1293,4 +1293,5 @@ static int __init sit_init(void)
module_init(sit_init);
module_exit(sit_cleanup);
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
+MODULE_ALIAS_RTNL_LINK("sit");
MODULE_ALIAS_NETDEV("sit0");