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ipv6: allow userspace to add IFA_F_OPTIMISTIC addresses
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According to RFC 4429 (section 3.1), adding new IPv6 addresses as
optimistic addresses is acceptable, as long as the implementation
follows some rules:

   * Optimistic DAD SHOULD only be used when the implementation is aware
        that the address is based on a most likely unique interface
        identifier (such as in [RFC2464]), generated randomly [RFC3041],
        or by a well-distributed hash function [RFC3972] or assigned by
        Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6) [RFC3315].
        Optimistic DAD SHOULD NOT be used for manually entered
        addresses.

Thus, it seems reasonable to allow userspace to set the optimistic flag
when adding new addresses.

We must not let userspace set NODAD + OPTIMISTIC, since if the kernel is
not performing DAD we would never clear the optimistic flag. We must
also ignore userspace's request to add OPTIMISTIC flag to addresses that
have already completed DAD (addresses that don't have the TENTATIVE
flag, or that have the DADFAILED flag).

Then we also need to clear the OPTIMISTIC flag on permanent addresses
when DAD fails. Otherwise, IFA_F_OPTIMISTIC addresses added by userspace
can still be used after DAD has failed, because in
ipv6_chk_addr_and_flags(), IFA_F_OPTIMISTIC overrides IFA_F_TENTATIVE.

Setting IFA_F_OPTIMISTIC from userspace is conditional on
CONFIG_IPV6_OPTIMISTIC_DAD and the optimistic_dad sysctl.

Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Sabrina Dubroca authored and David S. Miller committed Mar 1, 2018
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35 changes: 34 additions & 1 deletion net/ipv6/addrconf.c
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Expand Up @@ -1459,6 +1459,21 @@ static bool ipv6_use_optimistic_addr(struct net *net,
#endif
}

static bool ipv6_allow_optimistic_dad(struct net *net,
struct inet6_dev *idev)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_IPV6_OPTIMISTIC_DAD
if (!idev)
return false;
if (!net->ipv6.devconf_all->optimistic_dad && !idev->cnf.optimistic_dad)
return false;

return true;
#else
return false;
#endif
}

static int ipv6_get_saddr_eval(struct net *net,
struct ipv6_saddr_score *score,
struct ipv6_saddr_dst *dst,
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1968,6 +1983,8 @@ static void addrconf_dad_stop(struct inet6_ifaddr *ifp, int dad_failed)
spin_lock_bh(&ifp->lock);
addrconf_del_dad_work(ifp);
ifp->flags |= IFA_F_TENTATIVE;
if (dad_failed)
ifp->flags &= ~IFA_F_OPTIMISTIC;
spin_unlock_bh(&ifp->lock);
if (dad_failed)
ipv6_ifa_notify(0, ifp);
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -4501,6 +4518,9 @@ static int inet6_addr_modify(struct inet6_ifaddr *ifp, u32 ifa_flags,
(ifp->flags & IFA_F_TEMPORARY || ifp->prefix_len != 64))
return -EINVAL;

if (!(ifp->flags & IFA_F_TENTATIVE) || ifp->flags & IFA_F_DADFAILED)
ifa_flags &= ~IFA_F_OPTIMISTIC;

timeout = addrconf_timeout_fixup(valid_lft, HZ);
if (addrconf_finite_timeout(timeout)) {
expires = jiffies_to_clock_t(timeout * HZ);
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -4574,6 +4594,7 @@ inet6_rtm_newaddr(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
struct in6_addr *pfx, *peer_pfx;
struct inet6_ifaddr *ifa;
struct net_device *dev;
struct inet6_dev *idev;
u32 valid_lft = INFINITY_LIFE_TIME, preferred_lft = INFINITY_LIFE_TIME;
u32 ifa_flags;
int err;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -4607,7 +4628,19 @@ inet6_rtm_newaddr(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh,

/* We ignore other flags so far. */
ifa_flags &= IFA_F_NODAD | IFA_F_HOMEADDRESS | IFA_F_MANAGETEMPADDR |
IFA_F_NOPREFIXROUTE | IFA_F_MCAUTOJOIN;
IFA_F_NOPREFIXROUTE | IFA_F_MCAUTOJOIN | IFA_F_OPTIMISTIC;

idev = ipv6_find_idev(dev);
if (IS_ERR(idev))
return PTR_ERR(idev);

if (!ipv6_allow_optimistic_dad(net, idev))
ifa_flags &= ~IFA_F_OPTIMISTIC;

if (ifa_flags & IFA_F_NODAD && ifa_flags & IFA_F_OPTIMISTIC) {
NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack, "IFA_F_NODAD and IFA_F_OPTIMISTIC are mutually exclusive");
return -EINVAL;
}

ifa = ipv6_get_ifaddr(net, pfx, dev, 1);
if (!ifa) {
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