Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 573/671] ipv6: Handle race in addrconf_dad_work

From: David Ahern
Date: Thu Jan 16 2020 - 12:20:23 EST


On 1/16/20 10:18 AM, David Ahern wrote:
> On 1/16/20 10:03 AM, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> From: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> [ 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.