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Message-ID: <20101216132812.2d7fd885@nehalam>
Date:	Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:28:12 -0800
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	ebiederm@...ssion.com, brian.haley@...com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	maheshkelkar@...il.com, lorenzo@...gle.com,
	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, stable@...nel.org
Subject: [RFC] ipv6: don't flush routes when setting loopback down

When loopback device is being brought down, then keep the route table
entries because they are special. The entries in the local table for
linklocal routes and ::1 address should not be purged.

This is a sub optimal solution to the problem and should be replaced
by a better fix in future.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>

---
patch versus current net-next tree, but if this acceptable
it should be applied to net-2.6 as well.

--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c	2010-12-16 10:29:34.035408392 -0800
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c	2010-12-16 10:30:37.366834482 -0800
@@ -2669,7 +2669,9 @@ static int addrconf_ifdown(struct net_de
 
 	ASSERT_RTNL();
 
-	rt6_ifdown(net, dev);
+	/* Flush routes if device is being removed or it is not loopback */
+	if (how || !(dev->flags & IFF_LOOPBACK))
+		rt6_ifdown(net, dev);
 	neigh_ifdown(&nd_tbl, dev);
 
 	idev = __in6_dev_get(dev);
--
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