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Date:	Wed, 8 Jan 2014 15:13:13 +0100
From:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
To:	François-Xavier Le Bail <fx.lebail@...oo.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: IPv6: Bug in net-next

On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 03:04:00PM +0100, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 05:35:39AM -0800, François-Xavier Le Bail wrote:
> > On Wed, 1/8/14, François-Xavier Le Bail <fx.lebail@...oo.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > > I think there is a bug in actual net-next.
> >   
> > > > When I execute this code and press Crtl-C, all the IPv6
> > > > Link-Layer addresses are deleted.
> >   
> > > > This happened between
> > > > c1ddf295f5183a5189196a8035546842caa2055a and HEAD.
> >   
> > > > [...]
> >  
> > > Sorry, it is not linked to this code.
> > > I'm looking for the reason ...
> >  
> > It seems that the valid lifetime and preferred lft are set to 0 sec for autoconfigured LLA.
> 
> Grrr, I guess we should switch in addrconf_add_linklocal to call ipv6_add_addr
> with INFINITY_LIFE_TIME preferred and valid lft. IFA_PERMANENT may now expire,
> too since commit fad8da3e0 ("ipv6 addrconf: fix preferred lifetime
> state-changing behavior while valid_lft is infinity").

I am testing this patch:

diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
index 31f75ea..f7e86e3 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -2528,7 +2528,8 @@ static void add_addr(struct inet6_dev *idev, const struct in6_addr *addr,
 	struct inet6_ifaddr *ifp;
 
 	ifp = ipv6_add_addr(idev, addr, NULL, plen,
-			    scope, IFA_F_PERMANENT, 0, 0);
+			scope, IFA_F_PERMANENT,
+			INFINITY_LIFE_TIME, INFINITY_LIFE_TIME);
 	if (!IS_ERR(ifp)) {
 		spin_lock_bh(&ifp->lock);
 		ifp->flags &= ~IFA_F_TENTATIVE;
@@ -2656,7 +2657,8 @@ static void addrconf_add_linklocal(struct inet6_dev *idev, const struct in6_addr
 #endif
 
 
-	ifp = ipv6_add_addr(idev, addr, NULL, 64, IFA_LINK, addr_flags, 0, 0);
+	ifp = ipv6_add_addr(idev, addr, NULL, 64, IFA_LINK, addr_flags,
+			    INFINITY_LIFE_TIME, INFINITY_LIFE_TIME);
 	if (!IS_ERR(ifp)) {
 		addrconf_prefix_route(&ifp->addr, ifp->prefix_len, idev->dev, 0, 0);
 		addrconf_dad_start(ifp);
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