From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C54066FD2 for ; Tue, 3 Oct 2023 14:36:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9F67BC433C8; Tue, 3 Oct 2023 14:36:03 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1696343764; bh=fb8a79U9B7XiFGw1+vbay0NRlK6p/9nWvlZtpmw7MlY=; h=Date:Subject:To:Cc:References:From:In-Reply-To:From; b=NdDeyY7BHO+mEUNz0GYNIU8Rto9yROJTyEKxUw0h75/nUs5a5iOBxzyJ5hzDnYZLU WY53IslJKvCOWQdiPUNmJ2hitDpgTMoBqZTUwseuWBD2rSC03CNcLGQig/omx8VWoQ X+3Vqdxs5/evYrep6M6lG8gICprTEXUwLX/+IdaNLXdw/Wks758YVeRcXVArqVIY9K 9IwZGsbqWVfOujtu0QVJ5OFGbcr9G42OiUKYn1PMdoAHe5EKMEXy7IJtC0Cnx1oEqG pgHjWBq+rX/QNFOx+AQbRhRn89Adnkck0Pri+Iv0ZC9FAyV+Q5uRLlHRv8Nk0PvW0n XBcAs6OikO7kA== Message-ID: <0f91b58c-84bc-902c-0141-53fb8914590f@kernel.org> Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2023 08:36:02 -0600 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.15.1 Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4] net: add sysctl to disable rfc4862 5.5.3e lifetime handling Content-Language: en-US To: Patrick Rohr , "David S. Miller" Cc: Linux Network Development Mailing List , =?UTF-8?Q?Maciej_=c5=bbenczykowski?= , Lorenzo Colitti , Jen Linkova , Jiri Pirko References: <20230925214711.959704-1-prohr@google.com> From: David Ahern In-Reply-To: <20230925214711.959704-1-prohr@google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On 9/25/23 3:47 PM, Patrick Rohr wrote: > This change adds a sysctl to opt-out of RFC4862 section 5.5.3e's valid > lifetime derivation mechanism. > > RFC4862 section 5.5.3e prescribes that the valid lifetime in a Router > Advertisement PIO shall be ignored if it less than 2 hours and to reset > the lifetime of the corresponding address to 2 hours. An in-progress > 6man draft (see draft-ietf-6man-slaac-renum-07 section 4.2) is currently > looking to remove this mechanism. While this draft has not been moving > particularly quickly for other reasons, there is widespread consensus on > section 4.2 which updates RFC4862 section 5.5.3e. > > Cc: Maciej Żenczykowski > Cc: Lorenzo Colitti > Cc: Jen Linkova > Cc: Jiri Pirko > Cc: David Ahern > Signed-off-by: Patrick Rohr > --- > Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst | 11 ++++++++ > include/linux/ipv6.h | 1 + > net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 38 +++++++++++++++++--------- > 3 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) > Reviewed-by: David Ahern