[PATCH] ipv6: always add flag an address that failed DAD with DADFAILED
From: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk>
Date: 2016-01-08 12:47:47
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networking [general], networking [ipv4/ipv6], the rest · Maintainers:
"David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, David Ahern, Ido Schimmel, Linus Torvalds
The userspace needs to know why is the address being removed so that it can perhaps obtain a new address. Without the DADFAILED flag it's impossible to distinguish removal of a temporary and tentative address due to DAD failure from other reasons (device removed, manual address removal). Signed-off-by: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk> --- net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
index 1f21087..9342240 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c@@ -1772,12 +1772,13 @@ struct inet6_ifaddr *ipv6_get_ifaddr(struct net *net, const struct in6_addr *add static void addrconf_dad_stop(struct inet6_ifaddr *ifp, int dad_failed) { + if (dad_failed) + ifp->flags |= IFA_F_DADFAILED; + if (ifp->flags&IFA_F_PERMANENT) { spin_lock_bh(&ifp->lock); addrconf_del_dad_work(ifp); ifp->flags |= IFA_F_TENTATIVE; - if (dad_failed) - ifp->flags |= IFA_F_DADFAILED; spin_unlock_bh(&ifp->lock); if (dad_failed) ipv6_ifa_notify(0, ifp);
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