From: Greg KH <greg@kroah•com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta•com>
Cc: Emil S Tantilov <emils.tantilov@gmail•com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft•net>,
NetDev <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
"Tantilov, Emil S" <emil.s.tantilov@intel•com>,
stable@kernel•org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] IPv6: keep route for tentative address
Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 11:47:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100524184713.GA8627@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100524113118.47cc9852@nehalam>
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 11:31:18AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Recent changes preserve IPv6 address when link goes down (good).
> But would cause address to point to dead dst entry (bad).
> The simplest fix is to just not delete route if address is
> being held for later use.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta•com>
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
> (cherry picked from commit 93fa159abe50d3c55c7f83622d3f5c09b6e06f4b)
> ---
> Patch is for 2.6.34-stable (problem doesn't exist in earlier kernel)
Normally I wait for David to send networking patches for the stable
trees, so I would like to get David's ack on these two before I am
willing to apply them.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-24 18:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-12 15:41 [PATCH 0/4] IPv6 addrconf related fixes Stephen Hemminger
2010-04-12 15:41 ` [PATCH 1/4] IPv6: keep route for tentative address Stephen Hemminger
2010-04-12 20:17 ` Tantilov, Emil S
2010-05-21 22:21 ` Emil S Tantilov
2010-05-24 18:31 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Stephen Hemminger
2010-05-24 18:33 ` [PATCH 2/2] IPv6: only notify protocols if address is completely gone Stephen Hemminger
2010-07-28 0:25 ` Patch "IPv6: only notify protocols if address is completely gone" has been added to the 2.6.34-stable tree gregkh
2010-05-24 18:47 ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-05-24 20:52 ` [PATCH 1/2] IPv6: keep route for tentative address David Miller
2010-07-28 0:24 ` Patch "IPv6: keep route for tentative address" has been added to the 2.6.34-stable tree gregkh
2010-04-12 15:41 ` [PATCH 2/4] IPv6: keep tentative addresses in hash table Stephen Hemminger
2010-04-12 15:41 ` [PATCH 3/4] ipv6: additional ref count for hash list unnecessary Stephen Hemminger
2010-04-12 15:41 ` [PATCH 4/4] IPv6: only notify protocols if address is compeletely gone Stephen Hemminger
2010-04-13 9:29 ` [PATCH 0/4] IPv6 addrconf related fixes David Miller
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