Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ipv6: Reparent temporary address(es) if global address was, deleted from userspace

From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 12:22:29 +0200

On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 07:43:12AM +0200, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> If the kernel takes care of global and temporary addresses it can happen
> that the global address is deleted from userspace,
> e.g. by network managers in case the link goes (temporarily) down.
> In addition to the then orphaned temporary address(es) the next RA will
> create a new temporary address. Therefore we might end up with more than
> one non-deprecated temporary address for the same prefix for a longer
> period of time (>regen_advance). According to RfC4941 sect. 3.4 this
> should not happen.
> 
> Fix this by reparenting orphaned temporary addresses.
> 
> v2: style fixes
> 
> Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <[email-masked]>

Looks good!

Btw. do you intend this as a bugfix for net or net-next? net-next is currently
closed and you would have to resubmit this patch as soon as net-next opens
back up. A notification will be send to this list.

Current kernels only print a warning if this happens, so IMHO net-next would
be ok?

Thanks,

  Hannes