From: Yu Watanabe <watanabe.yu+github@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 02:36:40 +0000 (+0900)
Subject: network: do not restart DHCPv4 client on stopping/restarting networkd
X-Git-Tag: v259-rc1~210
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b1ba55a8a7a69afb389b1c0791cb3ea49c858694;p=thirdparty%2Fsystemd.git

network: do not restart DHCPv4 client on stopping/restarting networkd

Follow-up for fc35a9f8d1632c4e7a279228f869bfc77d8f5b9c (v255).
Fixes #39299.
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diff --git a/src/network/networkd-dhcp4.c b/src/network/networkd-dhcp4.c
index bade74f3b09..f88e6d58fc1 100644
--- a/src/network/networkd-dhcp4.c
+++ b/src/network/networkd-dhcp4.c
@@ -1762,8 +1762,14 @@ int dhcp4_start_full(Link *link, bool set_ipv6_connectivity) {
         int r;
 
         assert(link);
+        assert(link->manager);
         assert(link->network);
 
+        /* On stopping/restarting networkd, we may drop IPv6 connectivity (which depends on KeepConfiguration=
+         * setting). Do not (re)start DHCPv4 client in that case. See issue #39299. */
+        if (link->manager->state != MANAGER_RUNNING)
+                return 0;
+
         if (!link->dhcp_client)
                 return 0;