From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: ebiederm@xmission.com, brian.haley@hp.com,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, maheshkelkar@gmail.com,
lorenzo@google.com, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, stable@kernel.org
Subject: [RFC] ipv6: don't flush routes when setting loopback down
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:28:12 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101216132812.2d7fd885@nehalam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101209.122033.183046393.davem@davemloft.net>
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 <shemminger@vyatta.com>
---
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);
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-16 21:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-06 0:24 echo > 0 .../disable_ipv6 broken in 2.6.37-rc4 Eric W. Biederman
2010-12-06 0:33 ` Lorenzo Colitti
2010-12-06 0:39 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-12-06 5:51 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-12-06 16:10 ` Brian Haley
2010-12-08 21:29 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-12-08 22:49 ` Brian Haley
2010-12-08 23:13 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-12-08 23:49 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-12-09 2:42 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-12-09 3:18 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-12-09 4:16 ` [PATCH] Fix 2.6.34-rc1 regression in disable_ipv6 support Eric W. Biederman
2010-12-09 15:28 ` Brian Haley
2010-12-09 16:27 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-12-09 19:22 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-12-09 19:09 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-12-09 19:16 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-12-09 19:31 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-12-09 20:20 ` David Miller
2010-12-09 20:20 ` David Miller
2010-12-09 22:51 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-12-16 21:28 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2010-12-16 23:17 ` [RFC] ipv6: don't flush routes when setting loopback down Eric W. Biederman
2010-12-17 1:18 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-12-17 2:26 ` David Miller
2011-01-19 19:18 ` Jiri Bohac
2011-01-19 19:38 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-01-19 19:56 ` Jiri Bohac
2011-01-19 20:01 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-01-22 8:17 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-01-22 22:39 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-01-22 22:54 ` David Miller
2011-01-23 4:41 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-01-23 5:42 ` David Miller
2011-01-23 8:24 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-01-23 8:26 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-01-23 9:15 ` [stable] " Willy Tarreau
2011-01-23 9:21 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-01-23 10:34 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-01-23 19:21 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-01-23 19:57 ` [stable] " David Miller
2011-01-23 19:48 ` David Miller
2011-01-23 19:47 ` David Miller
2010-12-10 4:02 ` [PATCH] Fix 2.6.34-rc1 regression in disable_ipv6 support Stephen Hemminger
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