From 865b804244f228e80fb62abe464296399253cce8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Ward Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2015 12:18:58 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] net/ipv4: suppress NETDEV_UP notification on address lifetime update This notification causes the FIB to be updated, which is not needed because the address already exists, and more importantly it may undo intentional changes that were made to the FIB after the address was originally added. (As a point of comparison, when an address becomes deprecated because its preferred lifetime expired, a notification on this chain is not generated.) The motivation for this commit is fixing an incompatibility between DHCP clients which set and update the address lifetime according to the lease, and a commercial VPN client which replaces kernel routes in a way that outbound traffic is sent only through the tunnel (and disconnects if any further route changes are detected via netlink). Signed-off-by: David Ward Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/ipv4/devinet.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/ipv4/devinet.c b/net/ipv4/devinet.c index e813196c91c7..2d9cb1748f81 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/devinet.c +++ b/net/ipv4/devinet.c @@ -882,7 +882,6 @@ static int inet_rtm_newaddr(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh) queue_delayed_work(system_power_efficient_wq, &check_lifetime_work, 0); rtmsg_ifa(RTM_NEWADDR, ifa, nlh, NETLINK_CB(skb).portid); - blocking_notifier_call_chain(&inetaddr_chain, NETDEV_UP, ifa); } return 0; } -- 2.30.2