Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]> writes: > When loopback device is being brought down, then keep the route table > entries because they are special. The entries in the local table for > linklocal routes and ::1 address should not be purged. > > This is a sub optimal solution to the problem and should be replaced > by a better fix in future. > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]>
Stephen thanks for this. This patch looks good to me. I just tested this against 2.6.37-rc6 and my simple tests show it to be working without problems. Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]> > --- > patch versus current net-next tree, but if this acceptable > it should be applied to net-2.6 as well. > > --- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c 2010-12-16 10:29:34.035408392 -0800 > +++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c 2010-12-16 10:30:37.366834482 -0800 > @@ -2669,7 +2669,9 @@ static int addrconf_ifdown(struct net_de > > ASSERT_RTNL(); > > - rt6_ifdown(net, dev); > + /* Flush routes if device is being removed or it is not loopback */ > + if (how || !(dev->flags & IFF_LOOPBACK)) > + rt6_ifdown(net, dev); > neigh_ifdown(&nd_tbl, dev); > > idev = __in6_dev_get(dev); _______________________________________________ stable mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable
