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Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 02:03:48 +0100 From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org> To: "Asano, Yasushi" <yasushi.asano@...fujitsu.com> Cc: "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] ipv6 addrconf:fix preferred lifetime state-changing behavior while valid_lft is infinity On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 12:58:10AM +0000, Asano, Yasushi wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: netdev-owner@...r.kernel.org > > [mailto:netdev-owner@...r.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Hannes Frederic Sowa > > Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2013 8:47 AM > > To: Asano, Yasushi > > Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org > > Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] ipv6 addrconf:fix preferred lifetime > > state-changing behavior while valid_lft is infinity > > Importance: High > > > > On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 05:54:37AM +0000, Asano, Yasushi wrote: > > > from: Yasushi Asano <yasushi.asano@...fujitsu.com> > > > > > > There is a problem when setting the lifetime of an IPv6 address. > > > When I set preferred_lft to a value not zero or infinity, while valid_lft > > is infinity(0xffffffff) > > > preferred lifetime is set to forever and does not update. > > > Therefore preferred lifetime never becomes deprecated. > > > > > > I think valid lifetime and preferred lifetime should be set independently, > > > even if valid lifetime is infinity, preferred lifetime must expire > > correctly (meaning it must eventually become deprecated) > > > > > > I made a patch for 3.12 stable to solve the problem. > > > > This indeed could be improved. Thanks for the patch. But you should base > > it on net-next so it can be applied and please clean up the warnings > > and errors if you run the patch through ./scripts/checkpatch --strict. > > > > Thank you, > > > > Hannes > > > I made a patch based on net-next and emailed ML using git send-email last night. > > Subject: [PATCH 1/1] ipv6 addrconf:fix preferred lifetime state-changing behavior while valid_lft is infinity > Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 19:57:32 +0900 > Message-ID: <1386759452-22159-1-git-send-email-yasushi.asano@...fujitsu.com> > X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.12.4 > > Thank you for your time and assistance regarding this matter. > Yasushi Huch? I have not seen anything nor has patchworks: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/netdev/list/ Greetings, Hannes -- 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
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