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ipv6: clear RA flags when adding a static route
authorFernando Fernandez Mancera <fmancera@suse.de>
Sat, 15 Nov 2025 09:59:38 +0000 (10:59 +0100)
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Wed, 19 Nov 2025 03:28:08 +0000 (19:28 -0800)
commitf72514b3c5698e4b900b25345e09f9ed33123de6
tree4a2a22e42506bfda267b226e6e31e17496903233
parentcbf4d314acef1b24194a190cd7abb53f93062820
ipv6: clear RA flags when adding a static route

When an IPv6 Router Advertisement (RA) is received for a prefix, the
kernel creates the corresponding on-link route with flags RTF_ADDRCONF
and RTF_PREFIX_RT configured and RTF_EXPIRES if lifetime is set.

If later a user configures a static IPv6 address on the same prefix the
kernel clears the RTF_EXPIRES flag but it doesn't clear the RTF_ADDRCONF
and RTF_PREFIX_RT. When the next RA for that prefix is received, the
kernel sees the route as RA-learned and wrongly configures back the
lifetime. This is problematic because if the route expires, the static
address won't have the corresponding on-link route.

This fix clears the RTF_ADDRCONF and RTF_PREFIX_RT flags preventing that
the lifetime is configured when the next RA arrives. If the static
address is deleted, the route becomes RA-learned again.

Fixes: 14ef37b6d00e ("ipv6: fix route lookup in addrconf_prefix_rcv()")
Reported-by: Garri Djavadyan <g.djavadyan@gmail.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/ba807d39aca5b4dcf395cc11dca61a130a52cfd3.camel@gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera <fmancera@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251115095939.6967-1-fmancera@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c