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Message-ID: <571283EA.6020307@cumulusnetworks.com> Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2016 12:26:50 -0600 From: David Ahern <dsa@...ulusnetworks.com> To: Mike Manning <mmanning@...cade.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: ipv6: Do not fix up linklocal and loopback addresses On 4/15/16 9:13 PM, 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 > the first place, otherwise this incorrect fixup triggers a crash in fib6. oops in fib6_del? > > Fixes: f1705ec197e7 ("net: ipv6: Make address flushing on ifdown optional") > Signed-off-by: Mike Manning <mmanning@...cade.com> > --- for the change Acked-by: David Ahern <dsa@...ulusnetworks.com>
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