From: Jiri Bohac <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 18:50:02 +0200
> The randomized interface identifier (rndid) was periodically updated from
> the regen_timer timer. Simplify the code by updating the rndid only when
> needed by ipv6_try_regen_rndid().
>
> This makes the follow-up DESYNC_FACTOR fix much simpler. Also it fixes a
> reference counting error in this error path, where an in6_dev_put was
> missing:
> err = addrconf_sysctl_register(ndev);
> if (err) {
> ipv6_mc_destroy_dev(ndev);
> - del_timer(&ndev->regen_timer);
> snmp6_unregister_dev(ndev);
> goto err_release;
>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Bohac <[email protected]>
Applied.
