netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] ipv6, token: allow for clearing the current device token

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Message-Id: <20160413.224328.1801760395837378312.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 13 Apr 2016 22:43:28 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	daniel@...earbox.net
Cc:	hannes@...essinduktion.org, robbat2@...too.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ipv6, token: allow for clearing the current
 device token

From: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
Date: Fri,  8 Apr 2016 15:55:00 +0200

> The original tokenized iid support implemented via f53adae4eae5 ("net: ipv6:
> add tokenized interface identifier support") didn't allow for clearing a
> device token as it was intended that this addressing mode was the only one
> active for globally scoped IPv6 addresses. Later we relaxed that restriction
> via 617fe29d45bd ("net: ipv6: only invalidate previously tokenized addresses"),
> and we should also allow for clearing tokens as there's no good reason why
> it shouldn't be allowed.
> 
> Fixes: 617fe29d45bd ("net: ipv6: only invalidate previously tokenized addresses")
> Reported-by: Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@...too.org>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
> Cc: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>

Applied to net-next, thanks.