The notifier for address down should only be called if address is completely gone, not just being marked as tentative on link transistion. The code in net-next would case bonding/sctp/s390 to see address disappear on link down, but they would never see it reappear on link up. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger --- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c 2010-04-11 14:34:36.919767724 -0700 +++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c 2010-04-11 14:35:00.533967946 -0700 @@ -2714,7 +2714,9 @@ static int addrconf_ifdown(struct net_de } __ipv6_ifa_notify(RTM_DELADDR, ifa); - atomic_notifier_call_chain(&inet6addr_chain, NETDEV_DOWN, ifa); + if (ifa->dead) + atomic_notifier_call_chain(&inet6addr_chain, + NETDEV_DOWN, ifa); in6_ifa_put(ifa); write_lock_bh(&idev->lock); -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html