From: Heiner Kallweit <heiner.kallweit@xxxxxx> This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know. =============== [ 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: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c index cd3fb301da38..5dac9fd72465 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c +++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c @@ -1079,8 +1079,11 @@ 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; -- 1.9.2 -- 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