linux-kernel - Re: RTNL: assertion failed at net/ipv6/addrconf.c (1699)

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Message-ID: <CAHA+R7PY=Pu7VKA3wp1DxeJRckxPNWL-xfv2XXkpaY935kt61A@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 2 Sep 2014 11:15:36 -0700
From:	Cong Wang <cwang@...pensource.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.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, Sep 2, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> 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.

That is what we do when backporting patches, I can do that if David asks
me to backport it, but you know for netdev that is David's work.

(I am not saying I don't want to help him, I just want to point out the fact.
I am very pleased to help David for stable backports as long as he asks)
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