]> git.karo-electronics.de Git - karo-tx-linux.git/commit
net IPv6 : Fix broken IPv6 routing table after loopback down-up
authorBalakumaran Kannan <kumaran.4353@gmail.com>
Tue, 2 Apr 2013 10:45:05 +0000 (16:15 +0530)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 1 May 2013 16:46:16 +0000 (09:46 -0700)
commitb30430f11d0da68f0ea9a7aa168df2690da4608c
treef3faa45ded5a5fd4141c55238099eb9a9e552c8b
parentd0a353c0fe80641a90e87a6f97305b2206ab8f34
net IPv6 : Fix broken IPv6 routing table after loopback down-up

[ Upstream commit 25fb6ca4ed9cad72f14f61629b68dc03c0d9713f ]

IPv6 Routing table becomes broken once we do ifdown, ifup of the loopback(lo)
interface. After down-up, routes of other interface's IPv6 addresses through
'lo' are lost.

IPv6 addresses assigned to all interfaces are routed through 'lo' for internal
communication. Once 'lo' is down, those routing entries are removed from routing
table. But those removed entries are not being re-created properly when 'lo' is
brought up. So IPv6 addresses of other interfaces becomes unreachable from the
same machine. Also this breaks communication with other machines because of
NDISC packet processing failure.

This patch fixes this issue by reading all interface's IPv6 addresses and adding
them to IPv6 routing table while bringing up 'lo'.

==Testing==
Before applying the patch:
$ route -A inet6
Kernel IPv6 routing table
Destination                    Next Hop                   Flag Met Ref Use If
2000::20/128                   ::                         U    256 0     0 eth0
fe80::/64                      ::                         U    256 0     0 eth0
::/0                           ::                         !n   -1  1     1 lo
::1/128                        ::                         Un   0   1     0 lo
2000::20/128                   ::                         Un   0   1     0 lo
fe80::xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx/128  ::                         Un   0   1     0 lo
ff00::/8                       ::                         U    256 0     0 eth0
::/0                           ::                         !n   -1  1     1 lo
$ sudo ifdown lo
$ sudo ifup lo
$ route -A inet6
Kernel IPv6 routing table
Destination                    Next Hop                   Flag Met Ref Use If
2000::20/128                   ::                         U    256 0     0 eth0
fe80::/64                      ::                         U    256 0     0 eth0
::/0                           ::                         !n   -1  1     1 lo
::1/128                        ::                         Un   0   1     0 lo
ff00::/8                       ::                         U    256 0     0 eth0
::/0                           ::                         !n   -1  1     1 lo
$

After applying the patch:
$ route -A inet6
Kernel IPv6 routing
table
Destination                    Next Hop                   Flag Met Ref Use If
2000::20/128                   ::                         U    256 0     0 eth0
fe80::/64                      ::                         U    256 0     0 eth0
::/0                           ::                         !n   -1  1     1 lo
::1/128                        ::                         Un   0   1     0 lo
2000::20/128                   ::                         Un   0   1     0 lo
fe80::xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx/128  ::                         Un   0   1     0 lo
ff00::/8                       ::                         U    256 0     0 eth0
::/0                           ::                         !n   -1  1     1 lo
$ sudo ifdown lo
$ sudo ifup lo
$ route -A inet6
Kernel IPv6 routing table
Destination                    Next Hop                   Flag Met Ref Use If
2000::20/128                   ::                         U    256 0     0 eth0
fe80::/64                      ::                         U    256 0     0 eth0
::/0                           ::                         !n   -1  1     1 lo
::1/128                        ::                         Un   0   1     0 lo
2000::20/128                   ::                         Un   0   1     0 lo
fe80::xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx/128  ::                         Un   0   1     0 lo
ff00::/8                       ::                         U    256 0     0 eth0
::/0                           ::                         !n   -1  1     1 lo
$

Signed-off-by: Balakumaran Kannan <Balakumaran.Kannan@ap.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Maruthi Thotad <Maruthi.Thotad@ap.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/ipv6/addrconf.c