From 0e7bbcc104baaade4f64205e9706b7d43c46db7d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Julian Anastasov Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 09:56:50 +0300 Subject: neigh: allow admin to set NUD_STALE Admin should be able to set any state. Currently, this fails when lladdr is not changed and state is changed from NUD_CONNECTED to NUD_STALE: ip neigh add 192.168.8.1 lladdr 00:11:22:33:44:55 nud perm dev wlan0 ip neigh show to 192.168.8.1 192.168.8.1 dev wlan0 lladdr 00:11:22:33:44:55 PERMANENT ip neigh change 192.168.8.1 lladdr 00:11:22:33:44:55 nud stale dev wlan0 ip neigh show to 192.168.8.1 192.168.8.1 dev wlan0 lladdr 00:11:22:33:44:55 PERMANENT Problem may be from 2.1.X days. Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov Reviewed-by: Chunhui He Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/core/neighbour.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'net/core/neighbour.c') diff --git a/net/core/neighbour.c b/net/core/neighbour.c index cf26e04c4046..2ae929f9bd06 100644 --- a/net/core/neighbour.c +++ b/net/core/neighbour.c @@ -1148,7 +1148,8 @@ int neigh_update(struct neighbour *neigh, const u8 *lladdr, u8 new, } else goto out; } else { - if (lladdr == neigh->ha && new == NUD_STALE) + if (lladdr == neigh->ha && new == NUD_STALE && + !(flags & NEIGH_UPDATE_F_ADMIN)) new = old; } } -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2