ipv6: Send netlink notification when DAD fails
If we are managing IPv6 addresses using DHCP, it would be nice
for user-space to be notified if an address configured through
DHCP fails DAD. Otherwise user-space would have to poll to see
whether DAD succeeds.
This patch uses the existing notification mechanism and simply
hooks it into the DAD failure code path.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
index 6cf3ee1..3381b43 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -1380,6 +1380,8 @@
if (dad_failed)
ifp->flags |= IFA_F_DADFAILED;
spin_unlock_bh(&ifp->lock);
+ if (dad_failed)
+ ipv6_ifa_notify(0, ifp);
in6_ifa_put(ifp);
#ifdef CONFIG_IPV6_PRIVACY
} else if (ifp->flags&IFA_F_TEMPORARY) {