From: Mira Ressel <ara...@aixah.de> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2020 15:20:00 +0000
> I'm setting the peer->perm_addr, which would otherwise be zero, to its > dev_addr, which has been either generated randomly by the kernel or > provided by userland in a netlink attribute. Which by definition makes it not necessarily a "permanent address" and therefore is subject to being different across boots, which is exactly what you don't want to happen for automatic address generation.
