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ipv6: avoid dad-failures for addresses with NODAD
authorMahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
Sat, 13 May 2017 00:03:39 +0000 (17:03 -0700)
committerSasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Wed, 23 May 2018 01:36:24 +0000 (21:36 -0400)
commit34dee68c78b4b48e0c55e1c3097c50005544f00e
tree336d1a35a44cfc251c1907a56a8686e63672a768
parentfce2603e768a80a9b28477ab52ca72e25a045a84
ipv6: avoid dad-failures for addresses with NODAD

[ Upstream commit 66eb9f86e50547ec2a8ff7a75997066a74ef584b ]

Every address gets added with TENTATIVE flag even for the addresses with
IFA_F_NODAD flag and dad-work is scheduled for them. During this DAD process
we realize it's an address with NODAD and complete the process without
sending any probe. However the TENTATIVE flags stays on the
address for sometime enough to cause misinterpretation when we receive a NS.
While processing NS, if the address has TENTATIVE flag, we mark it DADFAILED
and endup with an address that was originally configured as NODAD with
DADFAILED.

We can't avoid scheduling dad_work for addresses with NODAD but we can
avoid adding TENTATIVE flag to avoid this racy situation.

Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
net/ipv6/addrconf.c