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

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Date:   Thu, 16 Jan 2020 21:45:22 -0500
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To:     David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        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 Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 10:20:16AM -0700, David Ahern wrote:
>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.

Sorry about this David. This series is a result of an experimental work
I did rather than the regular AUTOSEL workflow, so it ended up
accidentally bubbling a few commits that were previously rejected.

-- 
Thanks,
Sasha