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);
 
-- 
2.35.3