WITHDRAWN: [Lucid] [PATCH 0/1] addrconf.c: Prevent missing IPv6 addresses

Brad Figg brad.figg at canonical.com
Fri Dec 16 20:16:48 UTC 2011


On 12/16/2011 11:26 AM, Brad Figg wrote:
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/863394
>
> SRU Justification
>
> Impact:
>
> 2.6.32 has a problem with allocating IPv6 addresses that shows up using later versions of libvirt, or if you create lots of IPv6 addresses manually.
>
> What happens is that 'ip addr show dev' for a particular device fails to show the ipv6 addresses on them, yet they are there in the 'ifconfig' listing for that device.
>
> Fix:
>
> A partial backport of upstream commit 234b27c3fd58fc0e15c04dd0fbf4337fac9c2a06
>
> Testcase:
>
> See comment #7
>
> Neil Wilson (1):
>    addrconf.c: Prevent missing IPv6 addresses
>
>   net/ipv6/addrconf.c |    6 ++++++
>   1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>

Please ignore this patch request. Seth has pointed me at the correct commit.

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