netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 1/4] net: ipv6/addrconf: clamp preferred

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Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 10:28:00 -0600
From: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@...il.com>
To: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, jbohac@...e.cz, benoit.boissinot@...-lyon.org, 
	davem@...emloft.net, hideaki.yoshifuji@...aclelinux.com, dsahern@...nel.org, 
	pabeni@...hat.com, kuba@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 1/4] net: ipv6/addrconf: clamp preferred_lft
 to the maximum allowed

On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 6:23 AM Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us> wrote:
>
> Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 11:23:07PM CEST, alexhenrie24@...il.com wrote:
> >Without this patch, there is nothing to stop the preferred lifetime of a
> >temporary address from being greater than its valid lifetime. If that
> >was the case, the valid lifetime was effectively ignored.
> >
>
> Sounds like a bugfix, correct? In that case, could you please
> provide a proper Fixes tag and target -net tree?

Paolo requested no Fixes tag, and Jakub seemed to agree:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/60d9d5f57fdb55a27748996d807712c680c4e7f9.camel@redhat.com/

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230830182852.175e0ac2@kernel.org/

Which is fine by me. These changes are not important enough to backport.

-Alex