Hello,
On Sat, Nov 15, 2025 at 10:59:38AM +0100, Fernando Fernandez Mancera wrote:
> When an IPv6 Router Advertisement (RA) is received for a prefix, the
> kernel creates the corresponding on-link route with flags RTF_ADDRCONF
> and RTF_PREFIX_RT configured and RTF_EXPIRES if lifetime is set.
>
> If later a user configures a static IPv6 address on the same prefix the
> kernel clears the RTF_EXPIRES flag but it doesn't clear the RTF_ADDRCONF
> and RTF_PREFIX_RT. When the next RA for that prefix is received, the
> kernel sees the route as RA-learned and wrongly configures back the
> lifetime. This is problematic because if the route expires, the static
> address won't have the corresponding on-link route.
>
> This fix clears the RTF_ADDRCONF and RTF_PREFIX_RT flags preventing that
> the lifetime is configured when the next RA arrives. If the static
> address is deleted, the route becomes RA-learned again.
>
> Fixes: 14ef37b6d00e ("ipv6: fix route lookup in addrconf_prefix_rcv()")
> Reported-by: Garri Djavadyan <[email protected]>
> Closes:
> https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/[email protected]/
> Signed-off-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera <[email protected]>this commit is in the mainline now as f72514b3c5698e4b900b25345e09f9ed33123de6 and is supposed to fix https://bugs.debian.org/1117959. I would have expected this to get backported to stable (here: 6.12.x), but it's not in the list for 6.12.62-rc1[1]. Can we please have this patch backported? [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/ Thanks Uwe
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