Hi, To make ND6 mp-safe, I have to guarantee the life time of ln = rt->rt_llinfo. This call to nd6_llinfo_settimer(ln) looks strange.
The complicated logic can be replaced with what we have in ARP. Digging through the histroy shows a lot of refactoring that seems to make rt_expire handling here obsolete. Just initialize it to 0. And I doubt that event this is necessary. But let's stick to the ARP code for now. Cloning and local routes should never expire. If RTF_LLINFO is set, ln should not be NULL. So nd6_llinfo_settimer() was not reached in this case. While there, remove obsolete comment and #if 0 code that never worked. ok? bluhm Index: netinet6/nd6.c =================================================================== RCS file: /data/mirror/openbsd/cvs/src/sys/netinet6/nd6.c,v retrieving revision 1.274 diff -u -p -r1.274 nd6.c --- netinet6/nd6.c 3 May 2023 11:43:31 -0000 1.274 +++ netinet6/nd6.c 3 May 2023 22:02:28 -0000 @@ -760,40 +760,12 @@ nd6_rtrequest(struct ifnet *ifp, int req switch (req) { case RTM_ADD: - if ((rt->rt_flags & RTF_CLONING) || - ((rt->rt_flags & (RTF_LLINFO | RTF_LOCAL)) && ln == NULL)) { - if (ln != NULL) - nd6_llinfo_settimer(ln, 0); - if ((rt->rt_flags & RTF_CLONING) != 0) - break; + if (rt->rt_flags & RTF_CLONING) { + rt->rt_expire = 0; + break; } - /* - * In IPv4 code, we try to announce new RTF_ANNOUNCE entry here. - * We don't do that here since llinfo is not ready yet. - * - * There are also couple of other things to be discussed: - * - unsolicited NA code needs improvement beforehand - * - RFC2461 says we MAY send multicast unsolicited NA - * (7.2.6 paragraph 4), however, it also says that we - * SHOULD provide a mechanism to prevent multicast NA storm. - * we don't have anything like it right now. - * note that the mechanism needs a mutual agreement - * between proxies, which means that we need to implement - * a new protocol, or a new kludge. - * - from RFC2461 6.2.4, host MUST NOT send an unsolicited NA. - * we need to check ip6forwarding before sending it. - * (or should we allow proxy ND configuration only for - * routers? there's no mention about proxy ND from hosts) - */ -#if 0 - /* XXX it does not work */ - if (rt->rt_flags & RTF_ANNOUNCE) - nd6_na_output(ifp, - &satosin6(rt_key(rt))->sin6_addr, - &satosin6(rt_key(rt))->sin6_addr, - ip6_forwarding ? ND_NA_FLAG_ROUTER : 0, - 1, NULL); -#endif + if ((rt->rt_flags & RTF_LOCAL) && rt->rt_llinfo == NULL) + rt->rt_expire = 0; /* FALLTHROUGH */ case RTM_RESOLVE: if (gate->sa_family != AF_LINK ||