netdev - Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: add link-local, sit and loopback address with INFINITY_LIFE

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Date:	Thu, 09 Jan 2014 23:09:01 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	hannes@...essinduktion.org
Cc:	fx.lebail@...oo.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	damien.wyart@...il.com, yasushi.asano@...fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: add link-local, sit and loopback address
 with INFINITY_LIFE_TIME

From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 15:43:22 +0100

> In the past the IFA_PERMANENT flag indicated, that the valid and preferred
> lifetime where ignored. Since change fad8da3e085ddf ("ipv6 addrconf: fix
> preferred lifetime state-changing behavior while valid_lft is infinity")
> we honour at least the preferred lifetime on those addresses. As such
> the valid lifetime gets recalculated and updated to 0.
> 
> If loopback address is added manually this problem does not occur.
> Also if NetworkManager manages IPv6, those addresses will get added via
> inet6_rtm_newaddr and thus will have a correct lifetime, too.
> 
> Reported-by: François-Xavier Le Bail <fx.lebail@...oo.com>
> Reported-by: Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@...il.com>
> Fixes: fad8da3e085ddf ("ipv6 addrconf: fix preferred lifetime state-changing behavior while valid_lft is infinity")
> Cc: Yasushi Asano <yasushi.asano@...fujitsu.com>
> Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>

Applied, thanks Hannes.

> I hope there will be another pull request to Linus before 3.13 (I think
> there will be an upcoming -rc8 this Sunday?).

I think I will be able to sneak one more pull request in.
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