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

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Tue Sep 02 2014 - 14:11:35 EST


On Tue, 2014-09-02 at 11:04 -0700, Cong Wang wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Hannes Frederic Sowa

> > I definitely don't have a problem cleaning this up in net-next. I wanted
> > a minimal patch for stable because I didn't check history where and when
> > additional users of dev_get_by_flags_rcu were removed.
>
> `git grep` should show you we only have one caller. Apparently we don't
> care about any out-of-tree module.

Point is : you did not check if some stable versions had more callers.

Its very nice you checked current version, but it is not enough for a
stable candidate.



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