nexthop: Do not flush blackhole nexthops when loopback goes down
As far as user space is concerned, blackhole nexthops do not have a nexthop device and therefore should not be affected by the administrative or carrier state of any netdev. However, when the loopback netdev goes down all the blackhole nexthops are flushed. This happens because internally the kernel associates blackhole nexthops with the loopback netdev. This behavior is both confusing to those not familiar with kernel internals and also diverges from the legacy API where blackhole IPv4 routes are not flushed when the loopback netdev goes down: # ip route add blackhole 198.51.100.0/24 # ip link set dev lo down # ip route show 198.51.100.0/24 blackhole 198.51.100.0/24 Blackhole IPv6 routes are flushed, but at least user space knows that they are associated with the loopback netdev: # ip -6 route show 2001:db8:1::/64 blackhole 2001:db8:1::/64 dev lo metric 1024 pref medium Fix this by only flushing blackhole nexthops when the loopback netdev is unregistered. Fixes: ab84be7e ("net: Initial nexthop code") Signed-off-by:Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com> Reported-by:
Donald Sharp <sharpd@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by:
David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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