netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] ipv6: Clamp reported valid

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-Id: <20100630.102855.146351413.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:28:55 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ben@...adent.org.uk
Cc:	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, kaber@...sh.net, 514644@...s.debian.org,
	piotr.lewandowski@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ipv6: Clamp reported valid_lft to a minimum of 0

From: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 22:37:47 +0100

> Since addresses are only revalidated every 2 minutes, the reported
> valid_lft can underflow shortly before the address is deleted.
> Clamp it to a minimum of 0, as for prefered_lft.
> 
> Reported-by: Piotr Lewandowski <piotr.lewandowski@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>

Applied to net-next-2.6
--
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