netdev - Re: [PATCH] ipv6 addrconf: fix preferred lifetime state-changing behavior while valid

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Date:	Thu, 02 Jan 2014 19:35:09 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	yazzep@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, yasushi.asano@...fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6 addrconf: fix preferred lifetime state-changing
 behavior while valid_lft is infinity

From: Yasushi Asano <yazzep@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2013 12:04:19 +0900

> From: Yasushi Asano <yasushi.asano@...fujitsu.com>
> 
> Fixed a problem with setting the lifetime of an IPv6
> address. When setting 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. 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)
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yasushi Asano <yasushi.asano@...fujitsu.com>

Applied.
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