Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: add link-local, sit and loopback address with INFINITY_LIFE_TIME

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 15:43:22 +0100

> 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>

Applied, thanks Hannes.

> I hope there will be another pull request to Linus before 3.13 (I think
> there will be an upcoming -rc8 this Sunday?).

I think I will be able to sneak one more pull request in.