From: Ido Schimmel <ido...@mellanox.com> neigh_cleanup_and_release() is always called after marking a neighbour as dead, but it only notifies user space and not in-kernel listeners of the netevent notification chain.
This can cause multiple problems. In my specific use case, it causes the listener (a switch driver capable of L3 offloads) to believe a neighbour entry is still valid, and is thus erroneously kept in the device's table. Fix that by sending a netevent after marking the neighbour as dead. Fixes: a6bf9e933daf ("mlxsw: spectrum_router: Offload neighbours based on NUD state change") Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <ido...@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <j...@mellanox.com> --- net/core/neighbour.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/net/core/neighbour.c b/net/core/neighbour.c index 782dd86..7bb12e0 100644 --- a/net/core/neighbour.c +++ b/net/core/neighbour.c @@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ static void neigh_cleanup_and_release(struct neighbour *neigh) neigh->parms->neigh_cleanup(neigh); __neigh_notify(neigh, RTM_DELNEIGH, 0); + call_netevent_notifiers(NETEVENT_NEIGH_UPDATE, neigh); neigh_release(neigh); } -- 2.7.4