From: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks•com>
To: Mike Manning <mmanning@brocade•com>, netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: ipv6: Do not fix up linklocal and loopback addresses
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 16:14:19 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <571AA23B.3040703@cumulusnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <571A4DEB.3090204@brocade.com>
On 4/22/16 10:14 AM, Mike Manning wrote:
> commit f1705ec197e7 ("net: ipv6: Make address flushing on ifdown
> optional") added the option to retain user configured addresses on an
> admin down. A comment to one of the later revisions suggested using
> the IFA_F_PERMANENT flag rather than adding a user_managed boolean to
> the ifaddr struct. A side effect of this change is that link local and
> loopback addresses were also retained which was not part of the
> objective of the original changes. The commit 70af921db6f8 ("net: ipv6:
> Do not keep linklocal and loopback addresses") ensures that these are
> no longer kept. Similarly, the present fix ensures that these addresses
> are not incorrectly fixed up.
>
> Testing also with the recent patch in place to delete host routes on
> ifdown still shows that fixup of the LL & loopback addrs is incorrectly
> being attempted (and without that patch was causing a crash in fib6).
> Another approach to this is through code inspection by checking where
> the user_managed flag in the original dahern patch (which we have been
> using for nearly a year) has been replaced by checking IFA_F_PERMANENT.
>
> Fixes: f1705ec197e7 ("net: ipv6: Make address flushing on ifdown optional")
> Signed-off-by: Mike Manning <mmanning@brocade•com>
> ---
> net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 13 +++++++------
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks•com>
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2016-04-22 16:14 ` [PATCH] net: ipv6: Do not fix up linklocal and loopback addresses Mike Manning
2016-04-22 22:14 ` David Ahern [this message]
[not found] <5711AA52.6010400@brocade.com>
2016-04-16 3:13 ` Mike Manning
2016-04-16 14:31 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2016-04-16 18:26 ` David Ahern
2016-04-17 18:13 ` Mike Manning
2016-04-18 14:23 ` Mike Manning
2016-04-18 14:39 ` David Ahern
2016-04-18 15:14 ` Mike Manning
2016-04-18 15:19 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2016-04-18 15:28 ` Mike Manning
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