[ovs-dev] [bracnh-2.3] vlan-splinter: Do not check for ipv6 address.

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Tue Jul 28 17:28:04 UTC 2015


On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 10:32:27AM -0700, Alex Wang wrote:
> When ovs cleans up unused vlan sub interfaces created by vlan splinter
> feature, it will not touch interface that has ip address assigned.
> However, the get_in6() function implemented in netdev-linux module
> is buggy and always returns 0 (found ipv6 address).  This causes the
> vlan splinter created sub interfaces never being removed.
> 
> Since vlan splinter check is the only user of get_in6 function and
> there is no known use case of vlan interface with ipv6 address, we can
> simply remove the call of get_in6() function in vlan splinter check.
> 
> VMware-BZ: #1485521
> Reported-by: Ronald Lee <ronaldlee at vmware.com>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Wang <alexw at nicira.com>

Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>



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