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 3.4-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-3.4 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 Mon Apr 14 15:32:12 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
@@ -897,8 +897,11 @@ 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-3.4/ipv6-avoid-unnecessary-temporary-addresses-being-generated.patch
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