Re: PROBLEM: 2.6.11-rc2 hangs on bridge shutdown (br0)

[YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <yoshfuji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In article <20050206.143107.39728239.yoshfuji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (at Sun, 06 Feb 
2005 14:31:07 +0900 (JST)), YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 
<yoshfuji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> says:

> The source of problem is entry (*) which still on routing entry,
> not on gc list. And, the owner of entry is not routing table but
> unicast/anycast address structure(s).
> We need to "kill" active address on the other interfaces.

Which means in addrconf_notiry(), if the dev == &loopback_dev,
call addrconf_ifdown for every device like this:

Signed-off-by: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

===== net/ipv6/addrconf.c 1.129 vs edited =====
--- 1.129/net/ipv6/addrconf.c   2005-01-18 06:13:31 +09:00
+++ edited/net/ipv6/addrconf.c  2005-02-06 14:48:25 +09:00
@@ -1961,6 +1961,20 @@
        case NETDEV_DOWN:
        case NETDEV_UNREGISTER:
                /*
+                * If lo is doing down we need to kill
+                * all addresses on the host because it owns
+                * route on lo. --yoshfuji
+                */
+               if (dev == &loopback_dev) {
+                       struct net_device *dev1;
+                       for (dev1 = dev_base; dev1; dev1 = dev->next) {
+                               if (dev1 == &loopback_dev ||
+                                   __in6_dev_get(dev1) == NULL)
+                                       continue;
+                               addrconf_ifdown(dev1, event != NETDEV_DOWN);
+                       }
+               }
+               /*
                 *      Remove all addresses from this interface.
                 */
                addrconf_ifdown(dev, event != NETDEV_DOWN);


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