netdev - Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: remove incorrect WARN_ON() in fib6

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Date:   Mon, 25 Sep 2017 19:23:58 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To:     Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>
Cc:     Wei Wang <weiwan@...gle.com>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: remove incorrect WARN_ON() in fib6_del()

On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 7:07 PM, Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com> wrote:

> I am probably still missing something.
>
> Considering the del operation should be under the writer lock,
> if rt->rt6i_node should be NULL (for rt that has already been
> removed from fib6), why this WARN_ON() is triggered?
>
> An example may help.
>

Look at the stack trace, you'll find the answers...

ip6_link_failure() -> ip6_del_rt()

Note that rt might have been deleted from the _tree_ already.