netdev - Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: avoid dad-failures for addresses with NODAD

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Date:   Mon, 15 May 2017 14:26:55 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     mahesh@...dewar.net
Cc:     kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, jmorris@...ei.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
        kaber@...sh.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, edumazet@...gle.com,
        maheshb@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: avoid dad-failures for addresses with NODAD

From: Mahesh Bandewar <mahesh@...dewar.net>
Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 17:03:39 -0700

> From: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@...gle.com>
> 
> Every address gets added with TENTATIVE flag even for the addresses with
> IFA_F_NODAD flag and dad-work is scheduled for them. During this DAD process
> we realize it's an address with NODAD and complete the process without
> sending any probe. However the TENTATIVE flags stays on the
> address for sometime enough to cause misinterpretation when we receive a NS.
> While processing NS, if the address has TENTATIVE flag, we mark it DADFAILED
> and endup with an address that was originally configured as NODAD with
> DADFAILED.
> 
> We can't avoid scheduling dad_work for addresses with NODAD but we can
> avoid adding TENTATIVE flag to avoid this racy situation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@...gle.com>

This doesn't apply cleanly to the net tree, please respin.

Thank you.