This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net: ipv6: send unsolicited NA on admin up
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
net-ipv6-send-unsolicited-na-on-admin-up.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Thu Mar 22 14:40:23 CET 2018
From: David Ahern <dsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 11:49:04 -0700
Subject: net: ipv6: send unsolicited NA on admin up
From: David Ahern <dsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 4a6e3c5def13c91adf2acc613837001f09af3baa ]
ndisc_notify is the ipv6 equivalent to arp_notify. When arp_notify is
set to 1, gratuitous arp requests are sent when the device is brought up.
The same is expected when ndisc_notify is set to 1 (per ndisc_notify in
Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt). The NA is not sent on NETDEV_UP
event; add it.
Fixes: 5cb04436eef6 ("ipv6: add knob to send unsolicited ND on link-layer address change")
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/ipv6/ndisc.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/net/ipv6/ndisc.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ndisc.c
@@ -1723,6 +1723,8 @@ static int ndisc_netdev_event(struct not
case NETDEV_CHANGEADDR:
neigh_changeaddr(&nd_tbl, dev);
fib6_run_gc(0, net, false);
+ /* fallthrough */
+ case NETDEV_UP:
idev = in6_dev_get(dev);
if (!idev)
break;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/net-ipv6-send-unsolicited-na-on-admin-up.patch