This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ipv6: Avoid unnecessary temporary addresses being generated to the 3.13-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: ipv6-avoid-unnecessary-temporary-addresses-being-generated.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.13 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Thu Apr 10 22:03:04 PDT 2014 From: Heiner Kallweit <heiner.kallweit@xxxxxx> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 22:13:19 +0100 Subject: ipv6: Avoid unnecessary temporary addresses being generated From: Heiner Kallweit <heiner.kallweit@xxxxxx> [ Upstream commit ecab67015ef6e3f3635551dcc9971cf363cc1cd5 ] tmp_prefered_lft is an offset to ifp->tstamp, not now. Therefore age needs to be added to the condition. Age calculation in ipv6_create_tempaddr is different from the one in addrconf_verify and doesn't consider ADDRCONF_TIMER_FUZZ_MINUS. This can cause age in ipv6_create_tempaddr to be less than the one in addrconf_verify and therefore unnecessary temporary address to be generated. Use age calculation as in addrconf_modify to avoid this. Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <heiner.kallweit@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c +++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c @@ -1078,8 +1078,11 @@ retry: * Lifetime is greater than REGEN_ADVANCE time units. In particular, * an implementation must not create a temporary address with a zero * Preferred Lifetime. + * Use age calculation as in addrconf_verify to avoid unnecessary + * temporary addresses being generated. */ - if (tmp_prefered_lft <= regen_advance) { + age = (now - tmp_tstamp + ADDRCONF_TIMER_FUZZ_MINUS) / HZ; + if (tmp_prefered_lft <= regen_advance + age) { in6_ifa_put(ifp); in6_dev_put(idev); ret = -1; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from heiner.kallweit@xxxxxx are queue-3.13/ipv6-avoid-unnecessary-temporary-addresses-being-generated.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html