From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: greg@kroah.com
Cc: shemminger@vyatta.com, emils.tantilov@gmail.com,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, emil.s.tantilov@intel.com,
stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] IPv6: keep route for tentative address
Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 13:52:50 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100524.135250.160201215.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100524184713.GA8627@kroah.com>
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 11:47:13 -0700
> 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.
These two are fine to go to -stable, Greg please integrate.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-24 20:52 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 ` [PATCH 1/2] IPv6: keep route for tentative address Greg KH
2010-05-24 20:52 ` David Miller [this message]
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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