That patch I sent was against 2.6.21, but both 2.6.20 and 2.6.21 have
the problem. Here is a version for 2.6.20.
=
When network device's are renamed, the IPV6 snmp6 code
gets confused. It doesn't track name changes so it will OOPS
when network device's are removed.
The fix is trivial, just unregister/re-register in notify handler.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
net/ipv6/addrconf.c |6 --
net/ipv6/proc.c |1 +
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- linux-2.6.20.y.orig/net/ipv6/addrconf.c 2007-04-27 11:14:51.0
-0700
+++ linux-2.6.20.y/net/ipv6/addrconf.c 2007-04-27 11:16:26.0 -0700
@@ -2338,8 +2338,9 @@ static int addrconf_notify(struct notifi
break;
case NETDEV_CHANGENAME:
-#ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL
if (idev) {
+ snmp6_unregister_dev(idev);
+#ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL
addrconf_sysctl_unregister(idev-cnf);
neigh_sysctl_unregister(idev-nd_parms);
neigh_sysctl_register(dev, idev-nd_parms,
@@ -2347,8 +2348,9 @@ static int addrconf_notify(struct notifi
ndisc_ifinfo_sysctl_change,
NULL);
addrconf_sysctl_register(idev, idev-cnf);
- }
#endif
+ snmp6_register_dev(idev);
+ }
break;
};
--- linux-2.6.20.y.orig/net/ipv6/proc.c 2007-02-23 15:34:07.0 -0800
+++ linux-2.6.20.y/net/ipv6/proc.c 2007-04-27 11:16:26.0 -0700
@@ -237,6 +237,7 @@ int snmp6_unregister_dev(struct inet6_de
return -EINVAL;
remove_proc_entry(idev-stats.proc_dir_entry-name,
proc_net_devsnmp6);
+ idev-stats.proc_dir_entry = NULL;
return 0;
}
-
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