netdev - Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: simplify detection of first operational link-local address on interface

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Message-ID: <52D83DE3.40806@hp.com>
Date:	Thu, 16 Jan 2014 15:15:31 -0500
From:	Brian Haley <brian.haley@...com>
To:	Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, fbl@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: simplify detection of first operational link-local
 address on interface

On 01/16/2014 02:13 PM, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
> In commit 1ec047eb4751e3 ("ipv6: introduce per-interface counter for
> dad-completed ipv6 addresses") I build the detection of the first
> operational link-local address much to complex. Additionally this code
> now has a race condition.
> 
> Replace it with a much simpler variant, which just scans the address
> list when duplicate address detection completes, to check if this is
> the first valid link local address and send RS and MLD reports then.
> 
> Fixes: 1ec047eb4751e3 ("ipv6: introduce per-interface counter for dad-completed ipv6 addresses")
> Reported-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
> Cc: Flavio Leitner <fbl@...hat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
> ---

> +/* ifp->idev must be at least read locked */
> +static bool ipv6_lonely_lladdr(struct inet6_ifaddr *ifp)
> +{
> +	struct inet6_ifaddr *ifpiter;
> +	struct inet6_dev *idev = ifp->idev;
> +
> +	list_for_each_entry(ifpiter, &idev->addr_list, if_list) {
> +		if (ifp != ifpiter && ifpiter->scope == IFA_LINK &&
> +		    (ifpiter->flags & (IFA_F_PERMANENT|IFA_F_TENTATIVE|
> +				       IFA_F_OPTIMISTIC|IFA_F_DADFAILED)) ==
> +		    IFA_F_PERMANENT)
> +			return false;
> +	}
> +	return true;
> +}

Just a nit, but the idev->addr_list is sorted by scope, so you could use
list_for_each_entry_reverse(), and break out once the scope is > IFA_LINK to
reduce the number of compares.

-Brian
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