[Devel] [PATCH 2/3] [IPV6]: inet6_dev on loopback should be kept until namespace stop.

[Denis V. Lunev]

In the other case it will be destroyed when last address will be removed
from lo inside a namespace. This will break IPv6 in several places. The
most obvious one is ip6_dst_ifdown.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den at openvz.org>
---
 net/ipv6/addrconf.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
index d68e8f5..40784ea 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -2444,7 +2444,7 @@ static int addrconf_ifdown(struct net_device *dev, int how)
 
 	ASSERT_RTNL();
 
-	if (dev == init_net.loopback_dev && how == 1)
+	if ((dev->flags & IFF_LOOPBACK) && how == 1)
 		how = 0;
 
 	rt6_ifdown(net, dev);
-- 
1.5.3.rc5
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