[2.6.22.2 review 13/84] Fix ipv6 link down handling.

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From: Greg KH
Date: Tuesday, August 7, 2007 - 1:43 pm

From: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>

[IPV6]: Call inet6addr_chain notifiers on link down

Currently if the link is brought down via ip link or ifconfig down,
the inet6addr_chain notifiers are not called even though all
the addresses are removed from the interface.  This caused SCTP
to add duplicate addresses to it's list.

Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
 net/ipv6/addrconf.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -2472,6 +2472,7 @@ static int addrconf_ifdown(struct net_de
 		write_unlock_bh(&idev->lock);
 
 		__ipv6_ifa_notify(RTM_DELADDR, ifa);
+		atomic_notifier_call_chain(&inet6addr_chain, NETDEV_DOWN, ifa);
 		in6_ifa_put(ifa);
 
 		write_lock_bh(&idev->lock);

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