net: Evict neighbor entries on carrier down
authorDavid Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Fri, 12 Oct 2018 03:33:49 +0000 (20:33 -0700)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fri, 12 Oct 2018 16:47:39 +0000 (09:47 -0700)
commit859bd2ef1fc1110a8031b967ee656c53a6260a76
tree96f07d4fb9cc3ec82e5b60dd1aae6976aa87ead3
parent7c6bb7d2faaf1ed7d78bafd712476e4cf2cf0d7d
net: Evict neighbor entries on carrier down

When a link's carrier goes down it could be a sign of the port changing
networks. If the new network has overlapping addresses with the old one,
then the kernel will continue trying to use neighbor entries established
based on the old network until the entries finally age out - meaning a
potentially long delay with communications not working.

This patch evicts neighbor entries on carrier down with the exception of
those marked permanent. Permanent entries are managed by userspace (either
an admin or a routing daemon such as FRR).

Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
include/net/neighbour.h
net/core/neighbour.c
net/ipv4/arp.c
net/ipv6/ndisc.c