In a number of instances it is desirable to have systems that run with ipv6 disabled, but where enabling ipv6 remains an option. This has been broken since 2.6.34-rc1.
The problem is failure mode is that after # ip link set lo up # echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/lo/disable_ipv6 # echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/lo/disable_ipv6 # ping6 ::1 The ping and anything similar operations that use the ipv6 loopback address fail with network not reachable. This failure mode appears to start with: commit dc2b99f71ef477a31020511876ab4403fb7c4420 Author: stephen hemminger <[email protected]> Date: Mon Feb 8 19:48:05 2010 +0000 IPv6: keep permanent addresses on admin down Permanent IPV6 addresses should not be removed when the link is set to admin down, only when device is removed. When link is lost permanent addresses should be marked as tentative so that when link comes back they are subject to duplicate address detection (if DAD was enabled for that address). Other routing systems keep manually configured IPv6 addresses when link is set down. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]> Keeping ipv6 addresses on network interfaces when we bring those interfaces down is not the fundamental problem. The real problem is that there is something about routes and route-caches that make local ipv6 address unreachable after the loopback interface is brought down, and then brought up again, and it has been that way since at least 2.6.32. Finding the real bug is beyond me right now, but fixing the regression in disable_ipv6 is simple. We can just delete ::1 when we bring down the loopback interface, and it will be restored automatically when we bring the loopback interface back up. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]> --- Index: linux-2.6.37-rc5.x86_64/net/ipv6/addrconf.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.37-rc5.x86_64.orig/net/ipv6/addrconf.c +++ linux-2.6.37-rc5.x86_64/net/ipv6/addrconf.c @@ -2727,6 +2727,7 @@ static int addrconf_ifdown(struct net_de /* If just doing link down, and address is permanent and not link-local, then retain it. */ if (!how && + !ipv6_addr_loopback(&ifa->addr) && (ifa->flags&IFA_F_PERMANENT) && !(ipv6_addr_type(&ifa->addr) & IPV6_ADDR_LINKLOCAL)) { list_move_tail(&ifa->if_list, &keep_list); _______________________________________________ stable mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable
