Re: [PATCH] [IPV4] Fix secondary IP addresses after promotion

[Brian Pomerantz <bapper@piratehaven.org>]

On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 01:34:16AM +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> 
> You assume all addresses following the primary addresses are secondary
> addresses of the primary, which is not true with multiple primaries.
> This patch (untested) makes sure only to send notification for real
> secondaries of the deleted address. It also removes a racy double-
> check for IN_DEV_PROMOTE_SECONDARIES - once we've decided to promote
> an address checking again opens a window in which address promotion
> could be disabled and we end up with only secondaries without a
> primary address.
> 

Yeah, I was wondering if there could be primaries after the
secondaries.  I'm pretty unfamiliar with this code (first looked at it
last week) and still don't have a handle on how the primaries
interact with the secondaries in the route lookup.  Which means it's
not clear to me why this was failing to begin with. :)

Your patch works for all of the cases I've been testing with so it
looks good to go from here.


BAPper