Patch "ipv6: dad: don't remove dynamic addresses if link is down" has been added to the 4.12-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    ipv6: dad: don't remove dynamic addresses if link is down

to the 4.12-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     ipv6-dad-don-t-remove-dynamic-addresses-if-link-is-down.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.12 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Mon Jul 17 18:46:41 CEST 2017
From: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 16:56:54 +0200
Subject: ipv6: dad: don't remove dynamic addresses if link is down

From: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>


[ Upstream commit ec8add2a4c9df723c94a863b8fcd6d93c472deed ]

Currently, when the link for $DEV is down, this command succeeds but the
address is removed immediately by DAD (1):

    ip addr add 1111::12/64 dev $DEV valid_lft 3600 preferred_lft 1800

In the same situation, this will succeed and not remove the address (2):

    ip addr add 1111::12/64 dev $DEV
    ip addr change 1111::12/64 dev $DEV valid_lft 3600 preferred_lft 1800

The comment in addrconf_dad_begin() when !IF_READY makes it look like
this is the intended behavior, but doesn't explain why:

     * If the device is not ready:
     * - keep it tentative if it is a permanent address.
     * - otherwise, kill it.

We clearly cannot prevent userspace from doing (2), but we can make (1)
work consistently with (2).

addrconf_dad_stop() is only called in two cases: if DAD failed, or to
skip DAD when the link is down. In that second case, the fix is to avoid
deleting the address, like we already do for permanent addresses.

Fixes: 3c21edbd1137 ("[IPV6]: Defer IPv6 device initialization until the link becomes ready.")
Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 net/ipv6/addrconf.c |   18 +++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -1912,15 +1912,7 @@ static void addrconf_dad_stop(struct ine
 	if (dad_failed)
 		ifp->flags |= IFA_F_DADFAILED;
 
-	if (ifp->flags&IFA_F_PERMANENT) {
-		spin_lock_bh(&ifp->lock);
-		addrconf_del_dad_work(ifp);
-		ifp->flags |= IFA_F_TENTATIVE;
-		spin_unlock_bh(&ifp->lock);
-		if (dad_failed)
-			ipv6_ifa_notify(0, ifp);
-		in6_ifa_put(ifp);
-	} else if (ifp->flags&IFA_F_TEMPORARY) {
+	if (ifp->flags&IFA_F_TEMPORARY) {
 		struct inet6_ifaddr *ifpub;
 		spin_lock_bh(&ifp->lock);
 		ifpub = ifp->ifpub;
@@ -1933,6 +1925,14 @@ static void addrconf_dad_stop(struct ine
 			spin_unlock_bh(&ifp->lock);
 		}
 		ipv6_del_addr(ifp);
+	} else if (ifp->flags&IFA_F_PERMANENT || !dad_failed) {
+		spin_lock_bh(&ifp->lock);
+		addrconf_del_dad_work(ifp);
+		ifp->flags |= IFA_F_TENTATIVE;
+		spin_unlock_bh(&ifp->lock);
+		if (dad_failed)
+			ipv6_ifa_notify(0, ifp);
+		in6_ifa_put(ifp);
 	} else {
 		ipv6_del_addr(ifp);
 	}


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from sd@queasysnail.net are

queue-4.12/ipv6-dad-don-t-remove-dynamic-addresses-if-link-is-down.patch