netdev - Re: Bug 71591 - Temporary address re-generated when it should not (public address about to expire)

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Date:	Thu, 6 Mar 2014 17:43:09 +0100
From:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
To:	Heiner Kallweit <heiner.kallweit@....de>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bug 71591 - Temporary address re-generated when it should not (public address about to expire)

On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 05:38:21PM +0100, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> Recently I faced the issue that a public address was about to expire and 
> 3s before expiry a new temporary address was generated which instantly 
> went into deprecated state.
> This didn't do any harm however it's wrong IMHO. Problem seems to be in 
> function ipv6_create_tempaddr in addrconf.c.
> A new temporary address is generated if this condition is met: 
> tmp_prefered_lft > regen_advance
> tmp_prefered_lft however is an offset from tstamp, not from now.
> This condition only checks that the new address is preferred until more 
> than regen_advance from tstamp,
> but it should check that the new address is preferred until more than 
> regen_advance from now.
> 
> I submitted this issue to kernel bugzilla -> 71591
> Hannes asked me to propose a patch, here it comes.

You would need to follow Documentation/SubmittingPatches and provide a proper
signed-off-by.

Basically if scripts/checkpatch.pl --strict doesn't complain on your patch any
more, then you're ready to submit.

Otherwise the patch looks good to me.

Thanks,

  Hannes

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