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Commit f31867d0 authored by Alex Henrie's avatar Alex Henrie Committed by David S. Miller
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net: ipv6/addrconf: avoid integer underflow in ipv6_create_tempaddr

The existing code incorrectly casted a negative value (the result of a
subtraction) to an unsigned value without checking. For example, if
/proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/*/temp_prefered_lft was set to 1, the preferred
lifetime would jump to 4 billion seconds. On my machine and network the
shortest lifetime that avoided underflow was 3 seconds.

Fixes: 76506a98

 ("IPv6: fix DESYNC_FACTOR")
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDavid Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 151e887d
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