linux-kernel - Re: [REGRESSION] net/ipv6/addrconf: Temporary addresses with short lifetimes generating when they shouldn't, causing applications to fail

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Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2023 20:22:55 +0700
From: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>
To: Dan Moulding <dan@...m.net>
Cc: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@...il.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Regressions <regressions@...ts.linux.dev>
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] net/ipv6/addrconf: Temporary addresses with short
 lifetimes generating when they shouldn't, causing applications to fail

On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 04:10:57PM -0700, Dan Moulding wrote:
> I started running v6.7-rc5 on a desktop and began having problems
> where Chromium would frequently fail to load pages and give an
> "ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED" message instead. I also noticed instability in
> avahi-daemon (it would stop resolving local names and/or consume 100%
> CPU). Eventually I discovered that what is happening is that new
> temporary IPv6 addresses for a ULA address are being generated once
> every second, with very short preferred lifetimes (and I had an
> interface with thousands of such temporary addresses). I also found
> that it seems to be triggered when one of the devices on the network
> sends a router advertisement with a prefix that has a preferred
> lifetime of 0 (presumably it's sending that because it wants to
> deprecate that prefix).
> 
> I bisected it to commit 629df6701c8a ("net: ipv6/addrconf: clamp
> preferred_lft to the minimum required"). Upon reviewing that change, I
> see that it has changed when generation of temporary addresses will be
> allowed. I believe that change might have inadvertently caused the
> kernel to violate RFC 4941 and might need to be reverted.

Can you verify that by actually reverting 629df6701c8a91 on top of net
tree?

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