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From: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Mahesh Kelkar <maheshkelkar@gmail.com>,
	Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
Subject: Re: echo > 0 .../disable_ipv6 broken in 2.6.37-rc4
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 11:10:24 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CFD0AF0.9090809@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m17hfnlpe1.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org>

On 12/05/2010 07:24 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> In 2.6.37-rc4 ipv6 can be disabled not enabled.
> The last kernel I have tested and know this works on is 2.6.33.
> 
> To reproduce:
>    ~ # ip link set lo up
>    ~ # ping6 ::1
>    PING ::1(::1) 56 data bytes
>    64 bytes from ::1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.026 ms
>    ^C
>    --- ::1 ping statistics ---
>    1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 782ms
>    rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.026/0.026/0.026/0.000 ms
>    ~ # echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/lo/disable_ipv6 
>    ~ # ping6 ::1
>    connect: Network is unreachable
>    ~ # echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/lo/disable_ipv6 
>    ~ # ping6 ::1
>    connect: Network is unreachable
> 
> 
> I intend to poke at this a little more but at the moment
> I am drawing a blank at what is going on.

It should just be calling addrconf_notify() with either NETDEV_UP
or NETDEV_DOWN.  Does the address not come back?  Or the route?

> I intend to keep poking at this but if anyone can figure this out
> before I do I would be greatly appreciative.

I'm pulling the latest tree now, my 2.6.32.24 system is running fine, so
it's something after that.

-Brian

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-12-06 16:10 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 [this message]
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                         ` [RFC] ipv6: don't flush routes when setting loopback down Stephen Hemminger
2010-12-16 23:17                           ` 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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