IPv6 Routing table becomes broken once we do ifdown, ifup of the loopback(lo)
interface. After down-up, routes of other interface's IPv6 addresses through
'lo' are lost.
IPv6 addresses assigned to all interfaces are routed through 'lo' for internal
communication. Once 'lo' is down, those routing entries are removed from routing
table. But those removed entries are not being re-created properly when 'lo' is
brought up. So IPv6 addresses of other interfaces becomes unreachable from the
same machine. Also this breaks communication with other machines because of
NDISC packet processing failure.
This patch fixes this issue by reading all interface's IPv6 addresses and adding
them to IPv6 routing table while bringing up 'lo'.
==Testing==
Before applying the patch:
$ route -A inet6
Kernel IPv6 routing table
Destination Next Hop Flag Met Ref Use If
2000::20/128 :: U 256 0 0 eth0
fe80::/64 :: U 256 0 0 eth0
::/0 :: !n -1 1 1 lo
::1/128 :: Un 0 1 0 lo
2000::20/128 :: Un 0 1 0 lo
fe80::xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx/128 :: Un 0 1 0 lo
ff00::/8 :: U 256 0 0 eth0
::/0 :: !n -1 1 1 lo
$ sudo ifdown lo
$ sudo ifup lo
$ route -A inet6
Kernel IPv6 routing table
Destination Next Hop Flag Met Ref Use If
2000::20/128 :: U 256 0 0 eth0
fe80::/64 :: U 256 0 0 eth0
::/0 :: !n -1 1 1 lo
::1/128 :: Un 0 1 0 lo
ff00::/8 :: U 256 0 0 eth0
::/0 :: !n -1 1 1 lo
$
After applying the patch:
$ route -A inet6
Kernel IPv6 routing
table
Destination Next Hop Flag Met Ref Use If
2000::20/128 :: U 256 0 0 eth0
fe80::/64 :: U 256 0 0 eth0
::/0 :: !n -1 1 1 lo
::1/128 :: Un 0 1 0 lo
2000::20/128 :: Un 0 1 0 lo
fe80::xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx/128 :: Un 0 1 0 lo
ff00::/8 :: U 256 0 0 eth0
::/0 :: !n -1 1 1 lo
$ sudo ifdown lo
$ sudo ifup lo
$ route -A inet6
Kernel IPv6 routing table
Destination Next Hop Flag Met Ref Use If
2000::20/128 :: U 256 0 0 eth0
fe80::/64 :: U 256 0 0 eth0
::/0 :: !n -1 1 1 lo
::1/128 :: Un 0 1 0 lo
2000::20/128 :: Un 0 1 0 lo
fe80::xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx/128 :: Un 0 1 0 lo
ff00::/8 :: U 256 0 0 eth0
::/0 :: !n -1 1 1 lo
$
Signed-off-by: Balakumaran Kannan <Balakumaran.Kannan@ap.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Maruthi Thotad <Maruthi.Thotad@ap.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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