e, pending IPv6 DADs are not executed when the device becomes ready. I observed this while doing some tests with kvm. If I assign an IPv6 address to my interface eth0 (kvm driver rtl8139) when it is still down then the address is flagged tentative (IFA_F_TENTATIVE). Then, I set eth0 up, and to my surprise, the address stays 'tentative', no DAD is executed and the address can't be pinged. I also observed the same behaviour, without kvm, with virtual interfaces types macvlan and veth. Some easy steps to reproduce the issue with macvlan: 1. ip link add link eth0 type macvlan 2. ip -6 addr add 2003::ab32/64 dev macvlan0 3. ip addr show dev macvlan0 ... inet6 2003::ab32/64 scope global tentative ... 4. ip link set macvlan0 up 5. ip addr show dev macvlan0 ... inet6 2003::ab32/64 scope global tentative ... Address is still tentative I think there's a bug in net/ipv6/addrconf.c, addrconf_notify(): addrconf_dad_run() is not always run when the interface is flagged IF_READY. Currently it is only run when receiving NETDEV_CHANGE event. Looks like some (virtual) devices doesn't send this event when becoming up. For both NETDEV_UP and NETDEV_CHANGE events, when the interface becomes ready, run_pending should be set to 1. Patch below. 'run_pending = 1' could be moved below the if/else block but it makes the code less readable. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Thery Signed-off-by: David S. Miller ¾´ƒ1íK±­xxœ¥”Aj