From f410a1fba7afa79d2992620e874a343fdba28332 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 05:16:46 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] ipv6: protocol for address routes This fixes a problem spotted with zebra, but not sure if it is necessary a kernel problem. With IPV6 when an address is added to an interface, Zebra creates a duplicate RIB entry, one as a connected route, and other as a kernel route. When an address is added to an interface the RTN_NEWADDR message causes Zebra to create a connected route. In IPV4 when an address is added to an interface a RTN_NEWROUTE message is set to user space with the protocol RTPROT_KERNEL. Zebra ignores these messages, because it already has the connected route. The problem is that route created in IPV6 has route protocol == RTPROT_BOOT. Was this a design decision or a bug? This fixes it. Same patch applies to both net-2.6 and stable. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c index e2d3b7580b76..7b6a584b62dd 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c +++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c @@ -1688,6 +1688,7 @@ addrconf_prefix_route(struct in6_addr *pfx, int plen, struct net_device *dev, .fc_dst_len = plen, .fc_flags = RTF_UP | flags, .fc_nlinfo.nl_net = dev_net(dev), + .fc_protocol = RTPROT_KERNEL, }; ipv6_addr_copy(&cfg.fc_dst, pfx); -- 2.30.2