From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: mmanning@brocade.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: ipv6: Do not keep IPv6 addresses when IPv6 is disabled
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2016 15:14:39 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160813.151439.1969888908743414343.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1470999758-11535-1-git-send-email-mmanning@brocade.com>
From: Mike Manning <mmanning@brocade.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 12:02:38 +0100
> If IPv6 is disabled when the option is set to keep IPv6
> addresses on link down, userspace is unaware of this as
> there is no such indication via netlink. The solution is to
> remove the IPv6 addresses in this case, which results in
> netlink messages indicating removal of addresses in the
> usual manner. This fix also makes the behavior consistent
> with the case of having IPv6 disabled first, which stops
> IPv6 addresses from being added.
>
> Fixes: f1705ec197e7 ("net: ipv6: Make address flushing on ifdown optional")
> Signed-off-by: Mike Manning <mmanning@brocade.com>
Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-14 8:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-12 11:02 [PATCH] net: ipv6: Do not keep IPv6 addresses when IPv6 is disabled Mike Manning
2016-08-12 17:01 ` David Ahern
2016-08-13 22:14 ` David Miller [this message]
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