netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: ipv6: Do not fix up linklocal and loopback addresses

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Date:	Sat, 16 Apr 2016 17:31:50 +0300
From:	Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>
To:	Mike Manning <mmanning@...cade.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: ipv6: Do not fix up linklocal and loopback addresses

Hello.

On 4/16/2016 6:13 AM, Mike Manning wrote:

> f1705ec197e7 added the option to retain user configured addresses on an
> admin down. A comment to one of the later revisions suggested using the
> IFA_F_PERMANENT flag rather than adding a user_managed boolean to the
> ifaddr struct. A side effect of this change is that link local and
> loopback addresses are also retained which is not part of the objective
> of f1705ec197e7. Add check so that these addresses are not fixed up,
> given that a related fix 70af921db6f8 ensures that they are not kept in

    scripts/checkpatch.pl now enforces commit citing certain style: <12-digit 
SHA1> ("<comit summary>").

> the first place, otherwise this incorrect fixup triggers a crash in fib6.
>
> Fixes: f1705ec197e7 ("net: ipv6: Make address flushing on ifdown optional")
> Signed-off-by: Mike Manning <mmanning@...cade.com>
[...]

MBR, Sergei