Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: addrconf: fix Juniper SSL VPN client regression

["Bjørn Mork" <bjorn@mork.no>]

Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> writes:
> On 09.07.2016 19:23, Bjørn Mork wrote:
>> Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> writes:
>>> On Sat, Jul 9, 2016, at 23:13, Bjørn Mork wrote:
>>>> The Juniper SSL VPN client use a "tun" interface and seems to
>>>> be picky about visible changes.to it. Commit cc9da6cc4f56
>>>> ("ipv6: addrconf: use stable address generator for ARPHRD_NONE")
>>>> made such interfaces get an auto-generated IPv6 link local address
>>>> by default, similar to most other interface types. This made the
>>>> Juniper SSL VPN client fail for unknown reasons.
>>>>
>>>> Fixing this regression by effectively reverting the behaviour to
>>>> what we had before, while keeping the new "addrgenmode random"
>>>> feature.
>>>
>>> I wonder if we can simply add a flag, something like
>>> IFF_SUPPRESS_AUTO_IPV6_LL, to net_device->priv_flags and use that. So we
>>> can keep behavior for qmi, vxlan-gpe and gre. tun is the only device
>>> that is really user space facing, so maybe we just limit it to this?
>> 
>> Sounds good to me, but I don't know if the use case really qualifies as
>> 
>>  "* You should have a pretty good reason to be extending these flags."
>> 
>> 
>> The automatic address is certainly nice to have, but "good reason"?  I
>> don't know...  We can always just configure those devices for automatic
>> LL addresses using "ip link set foo addrgen random" or similar.
>
> I do think it is important enough to include it into priv_flags,
> especially if you compare it to other flags in there. We also can easily
> add new priv_flags member or enlarge to long if we run out in the long term.

OK, I'll cook a new version with that.


> I would slightly prefer if tunnels keep the behavior we introduced one
> release(?) ago.

Depends on how you count.  it was introduced in v4.5.


Bjørn