Dan Streetman
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Interfaces may come up at any time, even during our initialization of them, for various reasons; e.g. the kernel will raise VLAN when its parent is raised; or we will raise an interface if configured with BindCarrier and its associated interfaces come up. When LinkLocalAddressing has been disabled for ipv6, we disable addr_gen_mode in the kernel, so it will not automatically create a ipv6ll address when the interface is raised. However, we currently drop all foreign addresses before disabling addr_gen_mode. If the link has been up for a long time, then its kernel-created ipv6ll address will be correctly dropped. If the link is down, and stays down until we raise it after finishing configuration, the addr_gen_mode setting will be disabled when the interface is raised and the kernel will not create any ipv6ll address. However, if the interface is raised after dropping foreign config, but before we have disabled addr_gen_mode, the kernel will create a ipv6ll tentative address that will eventually finish DAD and become a working ipv6ll address, even though we have been configured to disable ipv6ll. Moving our call to drop foreign addresses to after we have successfully set addr_gen_mode closes this window; after we disable addr_gen_mode, we can safely remove foreign ipv6ll addresses (including tentative ones) and be sure that the kernel will not create any more. Fixes: #13882.
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