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

[Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>]

        Hello,

On Thu, 21 Oct 2021, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:

> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

        Looks good to me for -next tree, thanks!

Acked-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>

> ---
>  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);
>  
> 
> base-commit: d9aaaf223297f6146d9d7f36caca927c92ab855a
> -- 
> 2.33.1

Regards

--
Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>