Bug#969599: systemd: Valid IPv6 addresses and routes discarded erroneously under certain conditions.

[Colm Buckley]

That PR patches cleanly against the Debian source; so I'm building a local
package version now to test.

Will follow up here and with upstream.

Colm


On Sat, 5 Sep 2020 at 20:48, Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:

> Am 05.09.20 um 21:31 schrieb Colm Buckley:
> > Package: systemd
> > Version: 246.4-1~bpo10+1
> > Severity: important
> > Tags: ipv6
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> > Dear Maintainer,
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> > The current BPO release of systemd includes a serious regression; valid
> SLAAC v6 addresses and routes
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> > are discarded under certain circumstances. I believe this to be an
> instance of
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> > https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/16719 which is possibly fixed
> by https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/16725
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> > The user-visible symptom is that the systems stop responding on their
> SLAAC-configured v6 addresses until the link
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> > is next reconfigured; some time later they drop these addresses again.
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> > An extract from the debug log from systemd-networkd follows: note in
> particular the "Removing address" and "Forgetting address"
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> > lines in the log.
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> > I think that pull/16725 should be cherry-picked into Debian as soon as
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> Thanks for the bug report.
> Could you test the pull request and verify that this fixes your issue
> (and ideally also report back to the upstream bug report).
> Once the PR is merged upstream, we can consider cherry-picking it.
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> Michael
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Colm Buckley | colm at tuatha.org
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