diff --git a/net/core/neighbour.c b/net/core/neighbour.c
index 4b815db94b6b..ecd43c4a2221 100644
--- a/net/core/neighbour.c
+++ b/net/core/neighbour.c
@@ -55,9 +55,8 @@
 #define PNEIGH_HASHMASK		0xF
 
 static void neigh_timer_handler(unsigned long arg);
-#ifdef CONFIG_ARPD
-static void neigh_app_notify(struct neighbour *n);
-#endif
+static void __neigh_notify(struct neighbour *n, int type, int flags);
+static void neigh_update_notify(struct neighbour *neigh);
 static int pneigh_ifdown(struct neigh_table *tbl, struct net_device *dev);
 void neigh_changeaddr(struct neigh_table *tbl, struct net_device *dev);
 
@@ -110,6 +109,7 @@ static void neigh_cleanup_and_release(struct neighbour *neigh)
 	if (neigh->parms->neigh_cleanup)
 		neigh->parms->neigh_cleanup(neigh);
 
+	__neigh_notify(neigh, RTM_DELNEIGH, 0);
 	neigh_release(neigh);
 }
 
@@ -830,13 +830,10 @@ static void neigh_timer_handler(unsigned long arg)
 out:
 		write_unlock(&neigh->lock);
 	}
-	if (notify)
-		call_netevent_notifiers(NETEVENT_NEIGH_UPDATE, neigh);
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_ARPD
-	if (notify && neigh->parms->app_probes)
-		neigh_app_notify(neigh);
-#endif
+	if (notify)
+		neigh_update_notify(neigh);
+
 	neigh_release(neigh);
 }
 
@@ -1065,11 +1062,8 @@ out:
 	write_unlock_bh(&neigh->lock);
 
 	if (notify)
-		call_netevent_notifiers(NETEVENT_NEIGH_UPDATE, neigh);
-#ifdef CONFIG_ARPD
-	if (notify && neigh->parms->app_probes)
-		neigh_app_notify(neigh);
-#endif
+		neigh_update_notify(neigh);
+
 	return err;
 }
 
@@ -2002,6 +1996,11 @@ nla_put_failure:
 	return -EMSGSIZE;
 }
 
+static void neigh_update_notify(struct neighbour *neigh)
+{
+	call_netevent_notifiers(NETEVENT_NEIGH_UPDATE, neigh);
+	__neigh_notify(neigh, RTM_NEWNEIGH, 0);
+}
 
 static int neigh_dump_table(struct neigh_table *tbl, struct sk_buff *skb,
 			    struct netlink_callback *cb)
@@ -2421,7 +2420,6 @@ static const struct file_operations neigh_stat_seq_fops = {
 
 #endif /* CONFIG_PROC_FS */
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_ARPD
 static inline size_t neigh_nlmsg_size(void)
 {
 	return NLMSG_ALIGN(sizeof(struct ndmsg))
@@ -2453,16 +2451,11 @@ errout:
 		rtnl_set_sk_err(RTNLGRP_NEIGH, err);
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARPD
 void neigh_app_ns(struct neighbour *n)
 {
 	__neigh_notify(n, RTM_GETNEIGH, NLM_F_REQUEST);
 }
-
-static void neigh_app_notify(struct neighbour *n)
-{
-	__neigh_notify(n, RTM_NEWNEIGH, 0);
-}
-
 #endif /* CONFIG_ARPD */
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL