ipv6: split duplicate address detection and router solicitation timer
commit b7b1bfce upstream. This patch splits the timers for duplicate address detection and router solicitations apart. The router solicitations timer goes into inet6_dev and the dad timer stays in inet6_ifaddr. The reason behind this patch is to reduce the number of unneeded router solicitations send out by the host if additional link-local addresses are created. Currently we send out RS for every link-local address on an interface. If the RS timer fires we pick a source address with ipv6_get_lladdr. This change could hurt people adding additional link-local addresses and specifying these addresses in the radvd clients section because we no longer guarantee that we use every ll address as source address in router solicitations. Cc: Flavio Leitner <fleitner@redhat.com> Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Cc: David Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> Reviewed-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.10.y [Mike Manning <mmanning@brocade.com>: resolved conflicts with 36bddb] Signed-off-by: Mike Manning <mmanning@brocade.com> Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
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