net: Fix NETDEV_CHANGE notifier usage causing spurious arp flush
A bug was introduced in NETDEV_CHANGE notifier sequence causing the arp table to be sometimes spuriously cleared (including manual arp entries marked permanent), upon network link carrier changes. The changed argument for the notifier was applied only to a single caller of NETDEV_CHANGE, missing among others netdev_state_change(). So upon net_carrier events induced by the network, which are triggering a call to netdev_state_change(), arp_netdev_event() would decide whether to clear or not arp cache based on random/junk stack values (a kind of read buffer overflow). Fixes: be9efd36 ("net: pass changed flags along with NETDEV_CHANGE event") Fixes: 6c8b4e3f ("arp: flush arp cache on IFF_NOARP change") Signed-off-by: Loic Prylli <loicp@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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