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Message-ID: <20131209234704.GF7396@order.stressinduktion.org> Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 00:47:04 +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 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 -- 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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