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-rw-r--r--pkg/tcpip/stack/nic.go10
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pkg/tcpip/stack/nic.go b/pkg/tcpip/stack/nic.go
index 4a34805b5..8a946b4fa 100644
--- a/pkg/tcpip/stack/nic.go
+++ b/pkg/tcpip/stack/nic.go
@@ -217,6 +217,16 @@ func (n *NIC) disableLocked() {
ep.Disable()
}
+ // Clear the neighbour table (including static entries) as we cannot guarantee
+ // that the current neighbour table will be valid when the NIC is enabled
+ // again.
+ //
+ // This matches linux's behaviour at the time of writing:
+ // https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/71c061d2443814de15e177489d5cc00a4a253ef3/net/core/neighbour.c#L371
+ if err := n.clearNeighbors(); err != nil && err != tcpip.ErrNotSupported {
+ panic(fmt.Sprintf("n.clearNeighbors(): %s", err))
+ }
+
if !n.setEnabled(false) {
panic("should have only done work to disable the NIC if it was enabled")
}