On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 21:38 -0400, Brian Haley wrote:
quoted text
> [Note: if this is accepted I'll send out a patch for iproute,
>  if you'd prefer to not use the last ifa_flag I'll send a
>  much larger patch that does this differently :) ]
> 
> 
> Add IFA_F_DADFAILED flag to denote an IPv6 address that has
> failed Duplicate Address Detection, that way tools like
> /sbin/ip can be more informative.
> 
> 3: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qlen 1000
>     inet6 2001:db8::1/64 scope global tentative dadfailed 
>        valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
> 
> Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
> ---
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/if_addr.h b/include/linux/if_addr.h
> index a60c821..fd97404 100644
> --- a/include/linux/if_addr.h
> +++ b/include/linux/if_addr.h
> @@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ enum
>  
>  #define	IFA_F_NODAD		0x02
>  #define IFA_F_OPTIMISTIC	0x04
> +#define IFA_F_DADFAILED		0x08
>  #define	IFA_F_HOMEADDRESS	0x10
>  #define IFA_F_DEPRECATED	0x20
>  #define IFA_F_TENTATIVE		0x40
> diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
> index 43b3c9f..6532966 100644
> --- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
> +++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
> @@ -1376,7 +1376,7 @@ static void addrconf_dad_stop(struct inet6_ifaddr *ifp)
>  	if (ifp->flags&IFA_F_PERMANENT) {
>  		spin_lock_bh(&ifp->lock);
>  		addrconf_del_timer(ifp);
> -		ifp->flags |= IFA_F_TENTATIVE;
> +		ifp->flags |= IFA_F_DADFAILED;

I think you still have to set IFA_F_TENTATIVE here, too, otherwise
ipv6_dev_get_saddr() will use this address. 		

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