3.16.49-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@xxxxx> commit 3d171f3907329d4b1ce31d5ec9c852c5f0269578 upstream. The userspace needs to know why is the address being removed so that it can perhaps obtain a new address. Without the DADFAILED flag it's impossible to distinguish removal of a temporary and tentative address due to DAD failure from other reasons (device removed, manual address removal). Signed-off-by: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@xxxxx> Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c +++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c @@ -1610,12 +1610,13 @@ struct inet6_ifaddr *ipv6_get_ifaddr(str static void addrconf_dad_stop(struct inet6_ifaddr *ifp, int dad_failed) { + if (dad_failed) + ifp->flags |= IFA_F_DADFAILED; + if (ifp->flags&IFA_F_PERMANENT) { spin_lock_bh(&ifp->lock); addrconf_del_dad_work(ifp); ifp->flags |= IFA_F_TENTATIVE; - if (dad_failed) - ifp->flags |= IFA_F_DADFAILED; spin_unlock_bh(&ifp->lock); if (dad_failed) ipv6_ifa_notify(0, ifp);