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

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