Commit 93fa159a authored Apr 12, 2010 by stephen hemminger Committed by David S. Miller Apr 13, 2010

IPv6: keep route for tentative address



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>

parent 3941f188

net/ipv6/addrconf.c

+2 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -4047,7 +4047,8 @@ static void __ipv6_ifa_notify(int event, struct inet6_ifaddr *ifp)
		addrconf_leave_anycast(ifp);
		addrconf_leave_solict(ifp->idev, &ifp->addr);
		dst_hold(&ifp->rt->u.dst);
		if (ip6_del_rt(ifp->rt))

		if (ifp->dead && ip6_del_rt(ifp->rt))
		dst_free(&ifp->rt->u.dst);
		break;
		}

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