Patch "ipv6: Avoid unnecessary temporary addresses being generated" has been added to the 3.4-stable tree

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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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