linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 573/671] ipv6: Handle race in addrconf_dad

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Date:   Thu, 16 Jan 2020 10:20:16 -0700
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:     Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Rajendra Dendukuri <rajendra.dendukuri@...adcom.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 573/671] ipv6: Handle race in
 addrconf_dad_work

On 1/16/20 10:18 AM, David Ahern wrote:
> On 1/16/20 10:03 AM, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> From: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
>>
>> [ Upstream commit a3ce2a21bb8969ae27917281244fa91bf5f286d7 ]
>>
> 
> That commit was reverted by 8ae72cbf62d2c1879456c0c5872f958e18f53711 and
> then replaced by 2d819d250a1393a3e725715425ab70a0e0772a71
> 

BTW, the AUTOSEL algorithm should be updated to look for reverts and
even ones that have already been nack'ed from a backport perspective.

I felt a bit of deja vu with my response and sure enough this patch was
selected back in October and I responded then that it should not be
backported.