From 2199f562730dd1382946e0a2532afc38cd444129 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: =?UTF-8?q?Thomas=20Wei=C3=9Fschuh?= <linux@weissschuh.net>

Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2021 15:02:55 +0200

Subject: [PATCH] ipvs: autoload ipvs on genl access

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Git-commit: 2199f562730dd1382946e0a2532afc38cd444129

Patch-mainline: v5.16-rc1

References: bsc#1207361

The kernel provides the functionality to automatically load modules

providing genl families. Use this to remove the need for users to

manually load the module.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>

Acked-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>

Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

Signed-off-by: Jiri Wiesner <jwiesner@suse.de>

---

 net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c | 2 ++

 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c

index 29ec3ef63edc..0ff94c66641f 100644

--- a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c

+++ b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c

@@ -48,6 +48,8 @@

 #include <net/ip_vs.h>

+MODULE_ALIAS_GENL_FAMILY(IPVS_GENL_NAME);

+

 /* semaphore for IPVS sockopts. And, [gs]etsockopt may sleep. */

 static DEFINE_MUTEX(__ip_vs_mutex);

-- 

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