Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Jan 2023 19:28:08 -0800 | From | Jakub Kicinski <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] ip/ip6_gre: Fix GRE tunnels not generating IPv6 link local addresses |
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On Tue, 24 Jan 2023 16:21:01 +1300 Thomas Winter wrote: > For our point-to-point GRE tunnels, they have IN6_ADDR_GEN_MODE_NONE > when they are created then we set IN6_ADDR_GEN_MODE_EUI64 when they > come up to generate the IPv6 link local address for the interface. > Recently we found that they were no longer generating IPv6 addresses. > > Also, non-point-to-point tunnels were not generating any IPv6 link > local address and instead generating an IPv6 compat address, > breaking IPv6 communication on the tunnel. > > These failures were caused by commit e5dd729460ca and this patch set > aims to resolve these issues.
Ah, you have the problem statement here. It needs to go into the patches, I'm afraid. The cover letters are not as visible in-tree and certainly don't make it to stable trees.
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