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 <casca...@redhat.com> --- net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c index eb2ac4b..1f20345 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c +++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c @@ -252,12 +252,12 @@ static int ip6_tnl_create2(struct net_device *dev) t = netdev_priv(dev); + dev->rtnl_link_ops = &ip6_link_ops; err = register_netdevice(dev); if (err < 0) goto out; strcpy(t->parms.name, dev->name); - dev->rtnl_link_ops = &ip6_link_ops; dev_hold(dev); ip6_tnl_link(ip6n, t); -- 2.5.0