netdev - Re: [patch net-next] ipv6: allow userspace to create address with IFLA_F

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Date:	Thu, 24 Oct 2013 16:02:53 +0200
From:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
To:	Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, kuznet@....inr.ac.ru,
	jmorris@...ei.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, kaber@...sh.net,
	thaller@...hat.com, stephen@...workplumber.org
Subject: Re: [patch net-next] ipv6: allow userspace to create address with IFLA_F_TEMPORARY flag

On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 03:45:55PM +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> This is needed in order to implement userspace address configuration,
> namely ip6-privacy (rfc4941) in NetworkManager.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
> ---
>  net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
> index cd3fb30..962c7c9 100644
> --- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
> +++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
> @@ -3715,7 +3715,8 @@ inet6_rtm_newaddr(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh)
>  		return -ENODEV;
>  
>  	/* We ignore other flags so far. */
> -	ifa_flags = ifm->ifa_flags & (IFA_F_NODAD | IFA_F_HOMEADDRESS);
> +	ifa_flags = ifm->ifa_flags & (IFA_F_NODAD | IFA_F_HOMEADDRESS |
> +				      IFA_F_TEMPORARY);
>  
>  	ifa = ipv6_get_ifaddr(net, pfx, dev, 1);
>  	if (ifa == NULL) {

Hm, the kernel will pick up IFA_F_TEMPORARY marked addresses and do ipv6 address
regeneration (depending on lifetimes). Is this intended?

Btw. I am very interested in this topic as there is currently work in the IETF
to move away from eui-48 generation of addresses:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-6man-stable-privacy-addresses/

This needs to be done in userspace as we depend on a secret generated at
system install time.

Greetings,

  Hannes

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