Re: [PATCH linux-2.6 v2] IPv6: Create temporary address if none exists.
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2010-09-29 05:24:54
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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2010-09-29 05:24:54
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From: Glenn Wurster <redacted> Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 13:04:30 -0400
If privacy extentions are enabled, but no current temporary address exists, then create one when we get a router advertisement. Version 2, now with 100% fewer line wraps. Thanks to David Miller for pointing out the line wrapping issue. Signed-off-by: Glenn Wurster <redacted>
The existing code is correct from what I can tell. Variable "create" is true when "ifp == NULL" and "valid_lft != 0" And RFC 3041 explicitly states in section 3.3: When a new public address is created as described in [ADDRCONF] (because the prefix advertised does not match the prefix of any address already assigned to the interface, and Valid Lifetime in the option is not zero), also create a new temporary address. Your patch is going to cause us to create a temporary address even when valid_lft is zero, which the RFC says we should not do. That goes against what the RFC tells us to do, so I can only conclude that your patch is not correct. I'm not applying this, sorry.