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Message-ID: <1409681487.26422.1.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com>
Date:	Tue, 02 Sep 2014 11:11:27 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Cong Wang <cwang@...pensource.com>
Cc:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>,
	Sabrina Dubroca <sd@...asysnail.net>,
	Tommi Rantala <tt.rantala@...il.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, trinity@...r.kernel.org,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: RTNL: assertion failed at net/ipv6/addrconf.c (1699)

On Tue, 2014-09-02 at 11:04 -0700, Cong Wang wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Hannes Frederic Sowa

> > I definitely don't have a problem cleaning this up in net-next. I wanted
> > a minimal patch for stable because I didn't check history where and when
> > additional users of dev_get_by_flags_rcu were removed.
> 
> `git grep` should show you we only have one caller. Apparently we don't
> care about any out-of-tree module.

Point is : you did not check if some stable versions had more callers.

Its very nice you checked current version, but it is not enough for a
stable candidate.



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