Since addresses are only revalidated every 2 minutes, the reported
valid_lft can underflow shortly before the address is deleted.
Clamp it to a minimum of 0, as for prefered_lft.
Reported-by: Piotr Lewandowski <piotr.lewandowski@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
---
This is compile-tested only. I don't claim any familiarity with this
code.
Ben.
net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 8 ++++++--
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
index b97bb1f..1459eed 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -3492,8 +3492,12 @@ static int inet6_fill_ifaddr(struct sk_buff *skb, struct inet6_ifaddr *ifa,
preferred -= tval;
else
preferred = 0;
- if (valid != INFINITY_LIFE_TIME)
- valid -= tval;
+ if (valid != INFINITY_LIFE_TIME) {
+ if (valid > tval)
+ valid -= tval;
+ else
+ valid = 0;
+ }
}
} else {
preferred = INFINITY_LIFE_TIME;
--
1.7.1
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Bug#514644: ipv6: Clamp reported valid_lft to a minimum of 0
