[Bug 1764478] Re: dhclient in 'stateless' mode does not wait for ipv6 dad

[Dan Streetman]

** Also affects: isc-dhcp (Ubuntu Bionic)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: isc-dhcp (Ubuntu Trusty)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: isc-dhcp (Ubuntu Artful)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: isc-dhcp (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: isc-dhcp (Ubuntu Trusty)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: isc-dhcp (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: isc-dhcp (Ubuntu Artful)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: isc-dhcp (Ubuntu Bionic)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: isc-dhcp (Ubuntu Bionic)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Dan Streetman (ddstreet)

** Changed in: isc-dhcp (Ubuntu Artful)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Dan Streetman (ddstreet)

** Changed in: isc-dhcp (Ubuntu Xenial)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Dan Streetman (ddstreet)

** Changed in: isc-dhcp (Ubuntu Trusty)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Dan Streetman (ddstreet)

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Title:
  dhclient in 'stateless' mode does not wait for ipv6 dad

Status in isc-dhcp package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in isc-dhcp source package in Trusty:
  New
Status in isc-dhcp source package in Xenial:
  New
Status in isc-dhcp source package in Artful:
  New
Status in isc-dhcp source package in Bionic:
  New

Bug description:
  [impact]

  when configuring an interface in ifupdown to use 'inet6 auto' (SLAAC),
  the option 'dhcp 1' can also be used, which will use isc-dhcp-client
  to perform 'stateless' dhcpv6, which does not get a dhcpv6 address,
  only config info, like DNS domain and server, etc.

  bug 1633479 fixed isc-dhcp-client to properly bring up and wait for
  the interface's ipv6 Duplicate Address Detection (DAD) to complete,
  which is required for isc-dhcp-client to be able to open a socket and
  begin broadcasting DHCPv6 requests.  However, that fix is skipped when
  isc-dhcp-client is used in 'stateless' mode, so it fails in exactly
  the same way, for the same reason; isc-dhcp-client needs to be updated
  to perform the 'PREINIT6' call to the dhclient script, which properly
  sets up the interface for dhclient to use.

  Without that setup, isc-dhcp-client in DHCPv6 'stateless' mode will
  always fail immediately when the interface it's using is down.  If the
  interface is up, it will already have completed DAD and dhclient will
  work.

  [test case]

  configure ifupdown with:

  auto eth0
  iface eth0 inet6 auto
    dhcp 1

  replacing eth0 with the interface to test.  Make sure the interface is
  down, then ifup the interface.  isc-dhcp-client will fail claiming
  that:

  no link-local IPv6 address for eth0

  
  Alternately, ifupdown can be bypassed; for an interface that is currently down, do:

  $ sudo dhclient -6 -S eth0

  which will fail immediately (the -S param uses 'stateless' mode).

  [regression potential]

  changing isc-dhcp-client to perform PREINIT6 adds a new point of
  failure for doing DHCPv6, so there is the potential to break existing
  DHCPv6 clients if the preinit fails.  However, 'normal' DHCPv6 already
  does preinit6 - this only adds it to 'stateless' DHCPv6, so the
  failure potential should be limited to only users of 'stateless'
  DHCPv6, and those users are likely already seeing failures as
  described in this bug.

  [other info]

  This is related to bug 1633479

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