• Jiri Bohac's avatar
    IPv6: Drop the temporary address regen_timer · 9d6280da
    Jiri Bohac authored
    The randomized interface identifier (rndid) was periodically updated from
    the regen_timer timer. Simplify the code by updating the rndid only when
    needed by ipv6_try_regen_rndid().
    
    This makes the follow-up DESYNC_FACTOR fix much simpler.  Also it fixes a
    reference counting error in this error path, where an in6_dev_put was
    missing:
    		err = addrconf_sysctl_register(ndev);
    		if (err) {
    			ipv6_mc_destroy_dev(ndev);
    	-               del_timer(&ndev->regen_timer);
    			snmp6_unregister_dev(ndev);
    			goto err_release;
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Bohac <jbohac@suse.cz>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
    9d6280da
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