From: Michal Wrobel <xmxwx@asn.pl>
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 23:36:10 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: [IPV6]: anycast refcnt fix
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.21-rc3~149^2~9
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[IPV6]: anycast refcnt fix

This patch fixes a bug in Linux IPv6 stack which caused anycast address
to be added to a device prior DAD has been completed. This led to
incorrect reference count which resulted in infinite wait for
unregister_netdevice completion on interface removal.

Signed-off-by: Michal Wrobel <xmxwx@asn.pl>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---

diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
index f6ac65d365..e16f1bba5d 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -400,6 +400,8 @@ static void dev_forward_change(struct inet6_dev *idev)
 			ipv6_dev_mc_dec(dev, &addr);
 	}
 	for (ifa=idev->addr_list; ifa; ifa=ifa->if_next) {
+		if (ifa->flags&IFA_F_TENTATIVE)
+			continue;
 		if (idev->cnf.forwarding)
 			addrconf_join_anycast(ifa);
 		else