4.7-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Mike Manning <mmanning@xxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit ea06f7176413e2538d13bb85b65387d0917943d9 ] Default kernel behavior is to delete IPv6 addresses on link down, which entails deletion of the multicast and the subnet-router anycast addresses. These deletions do not happen with sysctl setting to keep global IPv6 addresses on link down, so every link down/up causes an increment of the anycast and multicast refcounts. These bogus refcounts may stop these addrs from being removed on subsequent calls to delete them. The solution is to leave the groups for the multicast and subnet anycast on link down for the callflow when global IPv6 addresses are kept. Fixes: f1705ec197e7 ("net: ipv6: Make address flushing on ifdown optional") Signed-off-by: Mike Manning <mmanning@xxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: David Ahern <dsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) --- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c +++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c @@ -3562,6 +3562,10 @@ restart: if (state != INET6_IFADDR_STATE_DEAD) { __ipv6_ifa_notify(RTM_DELADDR, ifa); inet6addr_notifier_call_chain(NETDEV_DOWN, ifa); + } else { + if (idev->cnf.forwarding) + addrconf_leave_anycast(ifa); + addrconf_leave_solict(ifa->idev, &ifa->addr); } write_lock_bh(&idev->lock); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html