• Herbert Xu's avatar
    [IPV6] addrconf: Fix IPv6 on tuntap tunnels · 74235a25
    Herbert Xu authored
    The recent patch that added ipv6_hwtype is broken on tuntap tunnels.
    Indeed, it's broken on any device that does not pass the ipv6_hwtype
    test.
    
    The reason is that the original test only applies to autoconfiguration,
    not IPv6 support.  IPv6 support is allowed on any device.  In fact,
    even with the ipv6_hwtype patch applied you can still add IPv6 addresses
    to any interface that doesn't pass thw ipv6_hwtype test provided that
    they have a sufficiently large MTU.  This is a serious problem because
    come deregistration time these devices won't be cleaned up properly.
    
    I've gone back and looked at the rationale for the patch.  It appears
    that the real problem is that we were creating IPv6 devices even if the
    MTU was too small.  So here's a patch which fixes that and reverts the
    ipv6_hwtype stuff.
    
    Thanks to Kanru Chen for reporting this issue.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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