netdev - Re: [PATCH 3.4-stable v2] ipv6: reallocate addrconf router for ipv6 address when lo device up

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Date:	Mon, 20 Oct 2014 04:14:32 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	chenweilong <chenweilong@...wei.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, Sabrina Dubroca <sd@...asysnail.net>,
	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>,
	Gao feng <gaofeng@...fujitsu.com>,
	Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.4-stable v2] ipv6: reallocate addrconf router for ipv6
 address when lo device up

On Wed, 2014-08-06 at 16:18 +0800, chenweilong wrote:
> It fix the bug 67951 on bugzilla
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67951
> 
> The patch can't be applied directly, as it' used the function introduced
> by "commit 94e187c0" ip6_rt_put(), that patch can't be applied directly
> either.
> 
> ====================
> 
> From: Gao feng <gaofeng@...fujitsu.com>
> 
> commit 33d99113b1102c2d2f8603b9ba72d89d915c13f5 upstream.
> 
> This commit don't have a stable tag, but it fix the bug
> no reply after loopback down-up.It's very worthy to be
> applied to stable 3.4 kernels.
> 
> The bug is 67951 on bugzilla
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67951
[...]

It looks like this is needed for 3.2.y as well, so I've queued it up.
Thanks.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
[W]e found...that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought.
... I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent
in finding mistakes in my own programs. - Maurice Wilkes, 1949

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