[IPV6]: anycast refcnt fix
authorMichal Wrobel <xmxwx@asn.pl>
Mon, 26 Feb 2007 23:36:10 +0000 (15:36 -0800)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>
Wed, 28 Feb 2007 17:41:58 +0000 (09:41 -0800)
This patch fixes a bug in Linux IPv6 stack which caused anycast address
to be added to a device prior DAD has been completed. This led to
incorrect reference count which resulted in infinite wait for
unregister_netdevice completion on interface removal.

Signed-off-by: Michal Wrobel <xmxwx@asn.pl>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/ipv6/addrconf.c

index f6ac65d36559cf15825a5e63d0a182cd9a080f6e..e16f1bba5dffd3295200cc8bfa66440e69f7541b 100644 (file)
@@ -400,6 +400,8 @@ static void dev_forward_change(struct inet6_dev *idev)
                        ipv6_dev_mc_dec(dev, &addr);
        }
        for (ifa=idev->addr_list; ifa; ifa=ifa->if_next) {
+               if (ifa->flags&IFA_F_TENTATIVE)
+                       continue;
                if (idev->cnf.forwarding)
                        addrconf_join_anycast(ifa);
                else