ipv6: add link-local, sit and loopback address with INFINITY_LIFE_TIME
authorHannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Wed, 8 Jan 2014 14:43:22 +0000 (15:43 +0100)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fri, 10 Jan 2014 04:07:47 +0000 (23:07 -0500)
commit07edd741c838e376933b445bbf2692f83b6774e6
tree025c8c05ab61dc98ca4b815d4a401ebacbefe2ee
parent9a2620c877454bb4b5c19f73d4d1d7b375da3632
ipv6: add link-local, sit and loopback address with INFINITY_LIFE_TIME

In the past the IFA_PERMANENT flag indicated, that the valid and preferred
lifetime where ignored. Since change fad8da3e085ddf ("ipv6 addrconf: fix
preferred lifetime state-changing behavior while valid_lft is infinity")
we honour at least the preferred lifetime on those addresses. As such
the valid lifetime gets recalculated and updated to 0.

If loopback address is added manually this problem does not occur.
Also if NetworkManager manages IPv6, those addresses will get added via
inet6_rtm_newaddr and thus will have a correct lifetime, too.

Reported-by: François-Xavier Le Bail <fx.lebail@yahoo.com>
Reported-by: Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@gmail.com>
Fixes: fad8da3e085ddf ("ipv6 addrconf: fix preferred lifetime state-changing behavior while valid_lft is infinity")
Cc: Yasushi Asano <yasushi.asano@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/ipv6/addrconf.c