Signed-off-by: NYOSHIFUJI Hideaki <hideaki.yoshifuji@miraclelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Commit 9131f3de ("ipv6: Do not iterate over all interfaces when
finding source address on specific interface.") did not properly
update best source address available.  Plus, it introduced
possible NULL pointer dereference.

Bug was reported by Erik Kline <ek@google.com>.
Based on patch proposed by Hajime Tazaki <thehajime@gmail.com>.

Fixes: 9131f3de ("ipv6: Do not
	iterate over all interfaces when finding source address
	on specific interface.")
Signed-off-by: NYOSHIFUJI Hideaki <hideaki.yoshifuji@miraclelinux.com>
Acked-by: NHajime Tazaki <thehajime@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NErik Kline <ek@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

If outgoing interface is specified and the candidate address is
restricted to the outgoing interface, it is enough to iterate
over that given interface only.
Signed-off-by: NYOSHIFUJI Hideaki <hideaki.yoshifuji@miraclelinux.com>
Acked-by: NErik Kline <ek@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

It is a prep work for the later bug-fix patch which will stop /128 route
from disappearing after pmtu update.

The later bug-fix patch will allow a /128 route and its RTF_CACHE clone
both exist at the same fib6_node.  To do this, we need to prepare the
existing fib6 tree search to expect RTF_CACHE for /128 route.

Note that the fn->leaf is sorted by rt6i_metric.  Hence,
RTF_CACHE (if there is any) is always at the front.  This property
leads to the following:

1. When doing ip6_route_del(), it should honor the RTF_CACHE flag which
   the caller is used to ask for deleting clone or non-clone.
   The rtm_to_fib6_config() should also check the RTM_F_CLONED and
   then set RTF_CACHE accordingly so that:
   - 'ip -6 r del...' will make ip6_route_del() to delete a route
     and all its clones. Note that its clones is flushed by fib6_del()
   - 'ip -6 r flush table cache' will make ip6_route_del() to
      only delete clone(s).

2. Exclude RTF_CACHE from addrconf_get_prefix_route() which
   should not configure on a cloned route.

3. No change is need for rt6_device_match() since it currently could
   return a RTF_CACHE clone route, so the later bug-fix patch will not
   affect it.
Signed-off-by: NMartin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: NHannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Cc: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The goal of this patch is to prepare the removal of the iflink field. It
introduces a new ndo function, which will be implemented by virtual interfaces.

There is no functional change into this patch. All readers of iflink field
now call dev_get_iflink().
Signed-off-by: NNicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

IP addresses are often stored in netlink attributes. Add generic functions
to do that.

For nla_put_in_addr, it would be nicer to pass struct in_addr but this is
not used universally throughout the kernel, in way too many places __be32 is
used to store IPv4 address.
Signed-off-by: NJiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The ipv6 code uses a mixture of coding styles. In some instances check for NULL
pointer is done as x == NULL and sometimes as !x. !x is preferred according to
checkpatch and this patch makes the code consistent by adopting the latter
form.

No changes detected by objdiff.
Signed-off-by: NIan Morris <ipm@chirality.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Those warnings reported by sparse endianness check (via kbuild test robot)
are harmless, nevertheless fix them up and make the code a little bit
easier to read.
Reported-by: Nkbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Fixes: 622c81d5 ("ipv6: generation of stable privacy addresses for link-local and autoconf")
Signed-off-by: NHannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This is specified by RFC 7217.

Cc: Erik Kline <ek@google.com>
Cc: Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
Cc: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki/吉藤英明 <hideaki.yoshifuji@miraclelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: NHannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

If a DAD conflict is detected, we want to retry privacy stable address
generation up to idgen_retries (= 3) times with a delay of idgen_delay
(= 1 second). Add the logic to addrconf_dad_failure.

By design, we don't clean up dad failed permanent addresses.

Cc: Erik Kline <ek@google.com>
Cc: Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
Cc: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki/吉藤英明 <hideaki.yoshifuji@miraclelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: NHannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Cc: Erik Kline <ek@google.com>
Cc: Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
Cc: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki/吉藤英明 <hideaki.yoshifuji@miraclelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: NHannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

We need to mark appropriate addresses so we can do retries in case their
DAD failed.

Cc: Erik Kline <ek@google.com>
Cc: Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
Cc: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki/吉藤英明 <hideaki.yoshifuji@miraclelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: NHannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch implements the stable privacy address generation for
link-local and autoconf addresses as specified in RFC7217.

  RID = F(Prefix, Net_Iface, Network_ID, DAD_Counter, secret_key)

is the RID (random identifier). As the hash function F we chose one
round of sha1. Prefix will be either the link-local prefix or the
router advertised one. As Net_Iface we use the MAC address of the
device. DAD_Counter and secret_key are implemented as specified.

We don't use Network_ID, as it couples the code too closely to other
subsystems. It is specified as optional in the RFC.

As Net_Iface we only use the MAC address: we simply have no stable
identifier in the kernel we could possibly use: because this code might
run very early, we cannot depend on names, as they might be changed by
user space early on during the boot process.

A new address generation mode is introduced,
IN6_ADDR_GEN_MODE_STABLE_PRIVACY. With iproute2 one can switch back to
none or eui64 address configuration mode although the stable_secret is
already set.

We refuse writes to ipv6/conf/all/stable_secret but only allow
ipv6/conf/default/stable_secret and the interface specific file to be
written to. The default stable_secret is used as the parameter for the
namespace, the interface specific can overwrite the secret, e.g. when
switching a network configuration from one system to another while
inheriting the secret.

Cc: Erik Kline <ek@google.com>
Cc: Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
Cc: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki/吉藤英明 <hideaki.yoshifuji@miraclelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: NHannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch implements the procfs logic for the stable_address knob:
The secret is formatted as an ipv6 address and will be stored per
interface and per namespace. We track initialized flag and return EIO
errors until the secret is set.

We don't inherit the secret to newly created namespaces.

Cc: Erik Kline <ek@google.com>
Cc: Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
Cc: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki/吉藤英明 <hideaki.yoshifuji@miraclelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: NHannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

in favor of their inner __ ones, which doesn't grab rtnl.

As these functions need to operate on a locked socket, we can't be
grabbing rtnl by then. It's too late and doing so causes reversed
locking.

So this patch:
- move rtnl handling to callers instead while already fixing some
  reversed locking situations, like on vxlan and ipvs code.
- renames __ ones to not have the __ mark:
  __ip_mc_{join,leave}_group -> ip_mc_{join,leave}_group
  __ipv6_sock_mc_{join,drop} -> ipv6_sock_mc_{join,drop}
Signed-off-by: NMarcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NHannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Joining multicast group on ethernet level via "ip maddr" command would
not work if we have an Ethernet switch that does igmp snooping since
the switch would not replicate multicast packets on ports that did not
have IGMP reports for the multicast addresses.

Linux vxlan interfaces created via "ip link add vxlan" have the group option
that enables then to do the required join.

By extending ip address command with option "autojoin" we can get similar
functionality for openvswitch vxlan interfaces as well as other tunneling
mechanisms that need to receive multicast traffic. The kernel code is
structured similar to how the vxlan driver does a group join / leave.

example:
ip address add 224.1.1.10/24 dev eth5 autojoin
ip address del 224.1.1.10/24 dev eth5
Signed-off-by: NMadhu Challa <challa@noironetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Currently we don't check if the new MTU is valid or not and this allows
one to configure a smaller than minimum allowed by RFCs or even bigger
than interface own MTU, which is a problem as it may lead to packet
drops.

If you have a daemon like NetworkManager running, this may be exploited
by remote attackers by forging RA packets with an invalid MTU, possibly
leading to a DoS. (NetworkManager currently only validates for values
too small, but not for too big ones.)

The fix is just to make sure the new value is valid. That is, between
IPV6_MIN_MTU and interface's MTU.

Note that similar check is already performed at
ndisc_router_discovery(), for when kernel itself parses the RA.
Signed-off-by: NMarcelo Ricardo Leitner <mleitner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NSabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

We still need a validate_link_af() handler with an appropriate nla policy,
similarly as we have in IPv4 case, otherwise size validations are not being
done properly in that case.

Fixes: f53adae4 ("net: ipv6: add tokenized interface identifier support")
Fixes: bc91b0f0 ("ipv6: addrconf: implement address generation modes")
Cc: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Signed-off-by: NDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: NJiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

RFC 4429 ("Optimistic DAD") states that optimistic addresses
should be treated as deprecated addresses.  From section 2.1:

   Unless noted otherwise, components of the IPv6 protocol stack
   should treat addresses in the Optimistic state equivalently to
   those in the Deprecated state, indicating that the address is
   available for use but should not be used if another suitable
   address is available.

Optimistic addresses are indeed avoided when other addresses are
available (i.e. at source address selection time), but they have
not heretofore been available for things like explicit bind() and
sendmsg() with struct in6_pktinfo, etc.

This change makes optimistic addresses treated more like
deprecated addresses than tentative ones.
Signed-off-by: NErik Kline <ek@google.com>
Acked-by: NLorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
Acked-by: NHannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

They are all either written once or extremly rarely (e.g. from init
code), so we can move them to the .data..read_mostly section.
Signed-off-by: NDaniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The kernel forcefully applies MTU values received in router
advertisements provided the new MTU is less than the current. This
behavior is undesirable when the user space is managing the MTU. Instead
a sysctl flag 'accept_ra_mtu' is introduced such that the user space
can control whether or not RA provided MTU updates should be applied. The
default behavior is unchanged; user space must explicitly set this flag
to 0 for RA MTUs to be ignored.
Signed-off-by: NHarout Hedeshian <harouth@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Commit 053c095a ("netlink: make nlmsg_end() and genlmsg_end()
void") didn't catch all of the cases where callers were breaking out
on the return value being equal to zero, which they no longer should
when zero means success.

Fix all such cases.
Reported-by: NMarcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Reported-by: NScott Feldman <sfeldma@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Contrary to common expectations for an "int" return, these functions
return only a positive value -- if used correctly they cannot even
return 0 because the message header will necessarily be in the skb.

This makes the very common pattern of

  if (genlmsg_end(...) < 0) { ... }

be a whole bunch of dead code. Many places also simply do

  return nlmsg_end(...);

and the caller is expected to deal with it.

This also commonly (at least for me) causes errors, because it is very
common to write

  if (my_function(...))
    /* error condition */

and if my_function() does "return nlmsg_end()" this is of course wrong.

Additionally, there's not a single place in the kernel that actually
needs the message length returned, and if anyone needs it later then
it'll be very easy to just use skb->len there.

Remove this, and make the functions void. This removes a bunch of dead
code as described above. The patch adds lines because I did

-	return nlmsg_end(...);
+	nlmsg_end(...);
+	return 0;

I could have preserved all the function's return values by returning
skb->len, but instead I've audited all the places calling the affected
functions and found that none cared. A few places actually compared
the return value with <= 0 in dump functionality, but that could just
be changed to < 0 with no change in behaviour, so I opted for the more
efficient version.

One instance of the error I've made numerous times now is also present
in net/phonet/pn_netlink.c in the route_dumpit() function - it didn't
check for <0 or <=0 and thus broke out of the loop every single time.
I've preserved this since it will (I think) have caused the messages to
userspace to be formatted differently with just a single message for
every SKB returned to userspace. It's possible that this isn't needed
for the tools that actually use this, but I don't even know what they
are so couldn't test that changing this behaviour would be acceptable.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The "init_net" test in function addrconf_exit_net is introduced
in commit 44a6bd29 [Create ipv6 devconf-s for namespaces] to avoid freeing
init_net. In commit c900a800 [ipv6: fix bad free of addrconf_init_net],
function addrconf_init_net will allocate memory for every net regardless of
init_net. In this case, it is unnecessary to make "init_net" test.

CC: Hong Zhiguo <honkiko@gmail.com>
CC: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
CC: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
CC: Cong Wang <cwang@twopensource.com>
Suggested-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: NZhu Yanjun <Yanjun.Zhu@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This change has no functional impact and simply addresses some coding
style issues detected by checkpatch. Specifically this change
adjusts "if" statements which also include the assignment of a
variable.

No changes to the resultant object files result as determined by objdiff.
Signed-off-by: NIan Morris <ipm@chirality.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Use the more common dynamic_debug capable net_dbg_ratelimited
and remove the LIMIT_NETDEBUG macro.

All messages are still ratelimited.

Some KERN_<LEVEL> uses are changed to KERN_DEBUG.

This may have some negative impact on messages that were
emitted at KERN_INFO that are not not enabled at all unless
DEBUG is defined or dynamic_debug is enabled.  Even so,
these messages are now _not_ emitted by default.

This also eliminates the use of the net_msg_warn sysctl
"/proc/sys/net/core/warnings".  For backward compatibility,
the sysctl is not removed, but it has no function.  The extern
declaration of net_msg_warn is removed from sock.h and made
static in net/core/sysctl_net_core.c

Miscellanea:

o Update the sysctl documentation
o Remove the embedded uses of pr_fmt
o Coalesce format fragments
o Realign arguments
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Add a sysctl that causes an interface's optimistic addresses
to be considered equivalent to other non-deprecated addresses
for source address selection purposes.  Preferred addresses
will still take precedence over optimistic addresses, subject
to other ranking in the source address selection algorithm.

This is useful where different interfaces are connected to
different networks from different ISPs (e.g., a cell network
and a home wifi network).

The current behaviour complies with RFC 3484/6724, and it
makes sense if the host has only one interface, or has
multiple interfaces on the same network (same or cooperating
administrative domain(s), but not in the multiple distinct
networks case.

For example, if a mobile device has an IPv6 address on an LTE
network and then connects to IPv6-enabled wifi, while the wifi
IPv6 address is undergoing DAD, IPv6 connections will try use
the wifi default route with the LTE IPv6 address, and will get
stuck until they time out.

Also, because optimistic nodes can receive frames, issue
an RTM_NEWADDR as soon as DAD starts (with the IFA_F_OPTIMSTIC
flag appropriately set).  A second RTM_NEWADDR is sent if DAD
completes (the address flags have changed), otherwise an
RTM_DELADDR is sent.

Also: add an entry in ip-sysctl.txt for optimistic_dad.
Signed-off-by: NErik Kline <ek@google.com>
Acked-by: NLorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
Acked-by: NHannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

NetworkManager might want to know that it changed when the router advertisement
arrives.
Signed-off-by: NLubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk>
Cc: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NDaniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NFabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Eric Dumazet noticed that all no-nonexthop or no-gateway routes which
are already marked DST_HOST (e.g. input routes routes) will always be
invalidated during sk_dst_check. Thus per-socket dst caching absolutely
had no effect and early demuxing had no effect.

Thus this patch removes rt6i_genid: fn_sernum already gets modified during
add operations, so we only must ensure we mutate fn_sernum during ipv6
address remove operations. This is a fairly cost extensive operations,
but address removal should not happen that often. Also our mtu update
functions do the same and we heard no complains so far. xfrm policy
changes also cause a call into fib6_flush_trees. Also plug a hole in
rt6_info (no cacheline changes).

I verified via tracing that this change has effect.

Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <hideaki@yoshifuji.org>
Cc: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com>
Cc: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Cc: Martin Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: NHannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

If IPv6 is explicitly disabled before the interface comes up,
it makes no sense to continue when it comes up, even just
print a message.

(I am not sure about other cases though, so I prefer not to touch)
Signed-off-by: NCong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NHannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Make it accept inet6_dev, and rename it to __ipv6_dev_ac_inc()
to reflect this change.
Signed-off-by: NCong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

If we try to rmmod the driver for an interface while sockets with
setsockopt(JOIN_ANYCAST) are alive, some refcounts aren't cleaned up
and we get stuck on:

  unregister_netdevice: waiting for ens3 to become free. Usage count = 1

If we LEAVE_ANYCAST/close everything before rmmod'ing, there is no
problem.

We need to perform a cleanup similar to the one for multicast in
addrconf_ifdown(how == 1).
Signed-off-by: NSabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
Acked-by: NHannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

addrconf_get_prefix_route() ensures to get the right route in the right table.
Signed-off-by: NNicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Acked-by: NHannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

There is no reason to take a refcnt before deleting the peer address route.
It's done some lines below for the local prefix route because
inet6_ifa_finish_destroy() will release it at the end.
For the peer address route, we want to free it right now.

This bug has been introduced by commit
caeaba79 ("ipv6: add support of peer address").
Signed-off-by: NNicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Acked-by: NHannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Calling setsockopt with IPV6_JOIN_ANYCAST or IPV6_LEAVE_ANYCAST
triggers the assertion in addrconf_join_solict()/addrconf_leave_solict()

ipv6_sock_ac_join(), ipv6_sock_ac_drop(), ipv6_sock_ac_close() need to
take RTNL before calling ipv6_dev_ac_inc/dec. Same thing with
ipv6_sock_mc_join(), ipv6_sock_mc_drop(), ipv6_sock_mc_close() before
calling ipv6_dev_mc_inc/dec.

This patch moves ASSERT_RTNL() up a level in the call stack.
Signed-off-by: NCong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NSabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
Reported-by: NTommi Rantala <tt.rantala@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NHannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch makes no changes to the logic of the code but simply addresses
coding style issues as detected by checkpatch.

Both objdump and diff -w show no differences.

A number of items are addressed in this patch:
* Multiple spaces converted to tabs
* Spaces before tabs removed.
* Spaces in pointer typing cleansed (char *)foo etc.
* Remove space after sizeof
* Ensure spacing around comparators such as if statements.
Signed-off-by: NIan Morris <ipm@chirality.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

We create a proc dir for each network device, this will cause
conflicts when the devices have name "all" or "default".

Rather than emitting an ugly kernel warning, we could just
fail earlier by checking the device name.
Reported-by: NStephane Chazelas <stephane.chazelas@gmail.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: NCong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch introduces a possibility for userspace to set various (so far
two) modes of generating addresses. This is useful for example for
NetworkManager because it can set the mode to NONE and take care of link
local addresses itself. That allow it to have the interface up,
monitoring carrier but still don't have any addresses on it.

One more use-case by Dan Williams:
<quote>
WWAN devices often have their LL address provided by the firmware of the
device, which sometimes refuses to respond to incorrect LL addresses
when doing DHCPv6 or IPv6 ND.  The kernel cannot generate the correct LL
address for two reasons:

1) WWAN pseudo-ethernet interfaces often construct a fake MAC address,
or read a meaningless MAC address from the firmware.  Thus the EUI64 and
the IPv6LL address the kernel assigns will be wrong.  The real LL
address is often retrieved from the firmware with AT or proprietary
commands.

2) WWAN PPP interfaces receive their LL address from IPV6CP, not from
kernel assignments.  Only after IPV6CP has completed do we know the LL
address of the PPP interface and its peer.  But the kernel has already
assigned an incorrect LL address to the interface.

So being able to suppress the kernel LL address generation and assign
the one retrieved from the firmware is less complicated and more robust.
</quote>
Signed-off-by: NJiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This can be used in virtual networking applications, and
may have other uses as well.  The option is disabled by
default.

A specific use case is setting up virtual routers, bridges, and
hosts on a single OS without the use of network namespaces or
virtual machines.  With proper use of ip rules, routing tables,
veth interface pairs and/or other virtual interfaces,
and applications that can bind to interfaces and/or IP addresses,
it is possibly to create one or more virtual routers with multiple
hosts attached.  The host interfaces can act as IPv6 systems,
with radvd running on the ports in the virtual routers.  With the
option provided in this patch enabled, those hosts can now properly
obtain IPv6 addresses from the radvd.
Signed-off-by: NBen Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>