If the payload length is zero and the next header field is not set to
NONXT, GNRC will interpret the current header as the payload because the
first snip is always interpreted as the payload. This can lead to loops
and or crashes.
With the previous fix, we only have to register addresses that are not
VALID yet on reception of router advertisements. This removes the need
for the hacky `GNRC_NETIF_FLAGS_6LO_ADDRS_REG` flag that was only
introduced to prevent unnecessary re-registration.
The whole address registration looses its point if all addresses are
marked valid from the get-go. With this fix non-link-local addresses
are first marked TENTATIVE and only after successful registration
marked as VALID. Link-local addresses are assumed to always be VALID.
At the moment ping is crashing if one pings the loopback address.
This was caused in #8214 when we moved interfaces from `kernel_pid_t`
ID to pointer-based handling, since loopback doesn't evaluate to such
an interface.
This fix
* assures that the periodicity of the final router advertisements is
kept (so that no administrative change e.g. adding prefixes to the
prefix list causes additional RAs outside the rate limitation)
* removes all administrative options (PIO, ABRO, 6CO) from final router
advertisements (with router lifetime == 0)
I applied the following terminology and changed the wording in the doc
accordingly:
* must not: If the parameter is of the value it *must not* be it either
hits an assert or crashes the system.
* may not: The value can be that value, but the function will return an
error.
This renames the following functions
* `gnrc_netif_ipv6_addr_add()`
* `gnrc_netif_ipv6_addr_remove()`
* `gnrc_netif_ipv6_group_join()`
* `gnrc_netif_ipv6_group_leave()`
by appending the suffix `_internal`.
\## Reasoning
I'd like to provide a helper function for the *public* equivalent using
`gnrc_netapi_set()`, and those names are to nice to not be taken for
those.
\## Procedure
I used a combination of `git grep` and `sed` to do this and fixed the
alignment in the result of some cases by hand.
```sh
git grep --name-only "\<gnrc_netif_ipv6_\(addr\|group\)_\(add\|remove\|join\|leave\)\>" | \
xargs sed -i 's/\<gnrc_netif_ipv6_\(addr\|group\)_\(add\|remove\|join\|leave\)/\0_internal/g'
```
When a neighbor becomes UNREACHABLE which causes neighbor solicitations
to be send only up to every minute. If the medium is very busy this can
easily get lost, basically causing the neighbor never to be reachable
again from the perspective of the sending node. To fix this the backoff
is reduced to its start value, every time a packet is sent to that
neighbor.
This assertion doesn't make any sense. The function is called by
_copy_and_handle_aro() on a router which causes `nce` to be NULL
(because there is no NCE known yet) and then the function called
directly after (_reg_addr_upstream()) checks if `nce` might be NULL and
creates an NCE if necessary.
While the GNRC_IPV6_NIB_RTR_TIMEOUT is properly handled, it is actually
never fired. Moreover, the router lifetime is set, but never read.
This removes the router lifetime and switches it out for an evtimer
to does the GNRC_IPV6_NIB_RTR_TIMEOUT event.
