ipv6: automatically enable stable privacy mode if stable_secret set
authorHannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Tue, 15 Dec 2015 21:59:12 +0000 (22:59 +0100)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Wed, 16 Dec 2015 04:37:32 +0000 (23:37 -0500)
Bjørn reported that while we switch all interfaces to privacy stable mode
when setting the secret, we don't set this mode for new interfaces. This
does not make sense, so change this behaviour.

Fixes: 622c81d57b392cc ("ipv6: generation of stable privacy addresses for link-local and autoconf")
Reported-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Cc: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/ipv6/addrconf.c

index a57d3d17a6204c722fbb3ae6aea25460c44cbc34..17f8e7ea133b49801f49791c5f9c1968e8584e88 100644 (file)
@@ -350,6 +350,12 @@ static struct inet6_dev *ipv6_add_dev(struct net_device *dev)
        setup_timer(&ndev->rs_timer, addrconf_rs_timer,
                    (unsigned long)ndev);
        memcpy(&ndev->cnf, dev_net(dev)->ipv6.devconf_dflt, sizeof(ndev->cnf));
+
+       if (ndev->cnf.stable_secret.initialized)
+               ndev->addr_gen_mode = IN6_ADDR_GEN_MODE_STABLE_PRIVACY;
+       else
+               ndev->addr_gen_mode = IN6_ADDR_GEN_MODE_EUI64;
+
        ndev->cnf.mtu6 = dev->mtu;
        ndev->cnf.sysctl = NULL;
        ndev->nd_parms = neigh_parms_alloc(dev, &nd_tbl);