Hello.
On 4/18/2016 5:23 PM, Mike Manning wrote:
f1705ec197e7 "Make address flushing on ifdown optional" added the option
Looking further, this doesn't seem like a complete commit summary. And you
need to enclose it in parens too.
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 were also retained which
was not part of the objective of the original changes. The fix 70af921db6f8
"Do not keep linklocal and loopback addresses" ensures that these are no
Again, () are needed around the summary.
longer kept. Similarly, the present fix ensures that these addresses are not
fixed up either, otherwise the incorrect fixup triggers a crash in fib6.
Fixes: f1705ec197e7 ("net: ipv6: Make address flushing on ifdown optional")
Signed-off-by: Mike Manning <mmann...@brocade.com>
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MBR, Sergei
