Commit 680a27a2 authored by Thomas Graf's avatar Thomas Graf Committed by David S. Miller
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[IPV6] address: Allow address changes while device is administrative down 



Same behaviour as IPv4, using IFF_UP is a no-no anyway.

Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 0ab6803b

net/ipv6/addrconf.c

+0 −6
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@@ -1886,9 +1886,6 @@ static int inet6_addr_add(int ifindex, struct in6_addr *pfx, int plen, 
	if ((dev = __dev_get_by_index(ifindex)) == NULL)

		return -ENODEV;

	

	if (!(dev->flags&IFF_UP))

		return -ENETDOWN;



	if ((idev = addrconf_add_dev(dev)) == NULL)

		return -ENOBUFS;
@@ -2922,9 +2919,6 @@ inet6_addr_modify(int ifindex, struct in6_addr *pfx, 
	if ((dev = __dev_get_by_index(ifindex)) == NULL)

		return -ENODEV;



	if (!(dev->flags&IFF_UP))

		return -ENETDOWN;



	if (!valid_lft || (prefered_lft > valid_lft))

		return -EINVAL;