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

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Date:	Tue, 2 Sep 2014 12:18:32 -0700
From:	Cong Wang <cwang@...pensource.com>
To:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Cc:	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 12:02 PM, Hannes Frederic Sowa
<hannes@...essinduktion.org> wrote:
>
> If fixes tag is well researched, it won't point to the addition of
> ASSERT_RTNL() but your patch would help to discover a bug somewhere else
> in the stack.
>
> I think for this patch a fixes-tag is hard to find because it is hard to
> find because it dates back to the beginning of the git history IMHO.
>

As I replied to Eric, this warning is probably caused by
the following commit:

commit c15b1ccadb323ea50023e8f1cca2954129a62b51
Author: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Date:   Thu Mar 27 18:28:07 2014 +0100

    ipv6: move DAD and addrconf_verify processing to workqueue


HOWEVER, you can definitely argue that the code without your
ASSERT_RTNL() was already broken, it's a little hard to tell without
digging more, that might date back to the beginning of git as you said.

For safety, I think we can simply assume it's that commit to be fixed
so that we don't fix older kernels until someone really reports a bug.
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