From fb13d9f9e450bceafd88ac8a98f7a98e8096a5fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 03:20:26 -0800
Subject: SCTP: change sctp_ctl_sock_init() to try IPv4 if IPv6 fails

Change sctp_ctl_sock_init() to try IPv4 if IPv6 socket registration
fails.  Required if the IPv6 module is loaded with "disable=1", else
SCTP will fail to load.

Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---
 net/sctp/protocol.c | 11 ++++++++---
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

(limited to 'net/sctp')

diff --git a/net/sctp/protocol.c b/net/sctp/protocol.c
index 4e6638449639..c4986d0f7419 100644
--- a/net/sctp/protocol.c
+++ b/net/sctp/protocol.c
@@ -717,15 +717,20 @@ static int sctp_inetaddr_event(struct notifier_block *this, unsigned long ev,
 static int sctp_ctl_sock_init(void)
 {
 	int err;
-	sa_family_t family;
+	sa_family_t family = PF_INET;
 
 	if (sctp_get_pf_specific(PF_INET6))
 		family = PF_INET6;
-	else
-		family = PF_INET;
 
 	err = inet_ctl_sock_create(&sctp_ctl_sock, family,
 				   SOCK_SEQPACKET, IPPROTO_SCTP, &init_net);
+
+	/* If IPv6 socket could not be created, try the IPv4 socket */
+	if (err < 0 && family == PF_INET6)
+		err = inet_ctl_sock_create(&sctp_ctl_sock, AF_INET,
+					   SOCK_SEQPACKET, IPPROTO_SCTP,
+					   &init_net);
+
 	if (err < 0) {
 		printk(KERN_ERR
 		       "SCTP: Failed to create the SCTP control socket.\n");
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