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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 18 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst index 4dfe0d9a57bb..7afff42612e9 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst @@ -2511,7 +2511,7 @@ temp_valid_lft - INTEGER temp_prefered_lft - INTEGER Preferred lifetime (in seconds) for temporary addresses. If temp_prefered_lft is less than the minimum required lifetime (typically - 5 seconds), the preferred lifetime is the minimum required. If + 5 seconds), temporary addresses will not be created. If temp_prefered_lft is greater than temp_valid_lft, the preferred lifetime is temp_valid_lft. diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c index 2692a7b24c40..733ace18806c 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c +++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c @@ -1407,23 +1407,15 @@ retry: write_unlock_bh(&idev->lock); - /* From RFC 4941: - * - * A temporary address is created only if this calculated Preferred - * Lifetime is greater than REGEN_ADVANCE time units. In - * particular, an implementation must not create a temporary address - * with a zero Preferred Lifetime. - * - * Clamp the preferred lifetime to a minimum of regen_advance, unless - * that would exceed valid_lft. - * + /* A temporary address is created only if this calculated Preferred + * Lifetime is greater than REGEN_ADVANCE time units. In particular, + * an implementation must not create a temporary address with a zero + * Preferred Lifetime. * Use age calculation as in addrconf_verify to avoid unnecessary * temporary addresses being generated. */ age = (now - tmp_tstamp + ADDRCONF_TIMER_FUZZ_MINUS) / HZ; - if (cfg.preferred_lft <= regen_advance + age) - cfg.preferred_lft = regen_advance + age + 1; - if (cfg.preferred_lft > cfg.valid_lft) { + if (cfg.preferred_lft <= regen_advance + age) { in6_ifa_put(ifp); in6_dev_put(idev); ret = -1; |