ipv6: introduce per-interface counter for dad-completed ipv6 addresses

To reduce the number of unnecessary router solicitations, MLDv2 and IGMPv3
messages we need to track the number of valid (as in non-optimistic,
no-dad-failed and non-tentative) link-local addresses. Therefore, this
patch implements a valid_ll_addr_cnt in struct inet6_dev.

We now only emit router solicitations if the first link-local address
finishes duplicate address detection.

The changes for MLDv2 and IGMPv3 are in a follow-up patch.

While there, also simplify one if statement(one minor nit I made in one
of my previous patches):

if (!...)
	do();
else
	return;

<<into>>

if (...)
	return;
do();

Cc: Flavio Leitner <fbl@redhat.com>
Cc: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Cc: David Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>
Suggested-by: David Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Acked-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/if_inet6.h b/include/net/if_inet6.h
index e4c5a2d2ba34..1628b8f5fb26 100644
--- a/include/net/if_inet6.h
+++ b/include/net/if_inet6.h
@@ -166,6 +166,7 @@ struct inet6_dev {
 	struct net_device	*dev;
 
 	struct list_head	addr_list;
+	int			valid_ll_addr_cnt;
 
 	struct ifmcaddr6	*mc_list;
 	struct ifmcaddr6	*mc_tomb;