netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] IPv6: Drop the temporary address regen

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Date:   Fri, 14 Oct 2016 10:59:33 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jbohac@...e.cz
Cc:     kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, jmorris@...ei.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
        kaber@...sh.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] IPv6: Drop the temporary address regen_timer

From: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@...e.cz>
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 18:50:02 +0200

> The randomized interface identifier (rndid) was periodically updated from
> the regen_timer timer. Simplify the code by updating the rndid only when
> needed by ipv6_try_regen_rndid().
> 
> This makes the follow-up DESYNC_FACTOR fix much simpler.  Also it fixes a
> reference counting error in this error path, where an in6_dev_put was
> missing:
> 		err = addrconf_sysctl_register(ndev);
> 		if (err) {
> 			ipv6_mc_destroy_dev(ndev);
> 	-               del_timer(&ndev->regen_timer);
> 			snmp6_unregister_dev(ndev);
> 			goto err_release;
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@...e.cz>

Applied.