netdev - Re: IPv6: autoconfiguration and suspend/resume or link down/up

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:30:53 -0500
From:	Dan Williams <dcbw@...hat.com>
To:	Jiri Bohac <jbohac@...e.cz>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.hengli.com.au>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	stephen hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Subject: Re: IPv6: autoconfiguration and suspend/resume or link down/up

On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 18:36 +0200, Jiri Bohac wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:21:43AM -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> > ... and in the resume handler use that value to age anything
> > that needs to know about time spent in suspend, and then do what needs
> > to be done with that.  So something like that may work for IPv6
> > addrconf; on suspend save current time, and on resume check the current
> > time, subtract the time you saved on suspend, and magically add that to
> > the lifetime counts and then run any expiry stuff.
> 
> IPv6 (by specification) does not send any RS when an IP address
> or route expires. So only subtracting the supend time from the
> lifetimes and possibly expiring the routes/IP addresses won't fix
> the problem.

Well, the prefix option of the RA includes the Valid Lifetime (in
seconds, no less) so I'd assume the kernel starts a timer when it
receives the RA and updates any addresses configured as a result of
receiving that RA+prefix, such that when the timer expires, the
autoconfigured address is deleted.  That timer can be used as a base for
the expiry mechanism that I've noted above, no?  This fixes problem #1
from your first mail.

For problem #2, shouldn't a new RS be sent whenever the interface
changes it's IFF_LOWER_UP bit?  IFF_LOWER_UP indicates a carrier on/off
event and thus indicates possible disconnect/reconnect to a new network.
I don't specifically know how it works now, but if RS isn't triggered
from IFF_LOWER_UP, I'd imagine that either (a) something didn't get
updated when IFF_LOWER_UP became how carrier was indicated in 2.6.17
(commit b00055aacdb172c05067612278ba27265fcd05ce) or (b) there's a
reason IFF_LOWER_UP isn't used as the trigger for sending an RS and I'm
qualified to say why.

Dan

> When I move to a new network, I need to restart the
> autoconfiguration. This does not currently happen - neither for
> an alive system where the ethernet link goes down/up, nor for a
> system that gets suspended, moved and then resumed.
> 

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html