ipv6: always add flag an address that failed DAD with DADFAILED
authorLubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk>
Fri, 8 Jan 2016 12:47:23 +0000 (13:47 +0100)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 11 Jan 2016 03:54:27 +0000 (22:54 -0500)
The userspace needs to know why is the address being removed so that it can
perhaps obtain a new address.

Without the DADFAILED flag it's impossible to distinguish removal of a
temporary and tentative address due to DAD failure from other reasons (device
removed, manual address removal).

Signed-off-by: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk>
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/ipv6/addrconf.c

index 8697551b16a8a28693392cad6ecc1f204aedd002..38eeddedfc21baa843b315d720cc94a28b6af605 100644 (file)
@@ -1772,12 +1772,13 @@ struct inet6_ifaddr *ipv6_get_ifaddr(struct net *net, const struct in6_addr *add
 
 static void addrconf_dad_stop(struct inet6_ifaddr *ifp, int dad_failed)
 {
+       if (dad_failed)
+               ifp->flags |= IFA_F_DADFAILED;
+
        if (ifp->flags&IFA_F_PERMANENT) {
                spin_lock_bh(&ifp->lock);
                addrconf_del_dad_work(ifp);
                ifp->flags |= IFA_F_TENTATIVE;
-               if (dad_failed)
-                       ifp->flags |= IFA_F_DADFAILED;
                spin_unlock_bh(&ifp->lock);
                if (dad_failed)
                        ipv6_ifa_notify(0, ifp);