Re: [PATCH 1/2] IPv6: keep route for tentative address
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2010-05-24 20:52:40
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2010-05-24 20:52:40
From: Greg KH <redacted> Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 11:47:13 -0700
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 11:31:18AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:quoted
Recent changes preserve IPv6 address when link goes down (good). But would cause address to point to dead dst entry (bad). The simplest fix is to just not delete route if address is being held for later use. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <redacted> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> (cherry picked from commit 93fa159abe50d3c55c7f83622d3f5c09b6e06f4b) --- Patch is for 2.6.34-stable (problem doesn't exist in earlier kernel)Normally I wait for David to send networking patches for the stable trees, so I would like to get David's ack on these two before I am willing to apply them.
These two are fine to go to -stable, Greg please integrate.