Re: [PATCH net v2] ipv6: fix rtnl locking in setsockopt for anycast and multicast
Cong Wang <[email protected]> Fri, 5 Sep 2014 12:34:38 -0700
| Newsgroups | org.kernel.vger.trinity,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.netdev |
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| Message-ID | <CAHA+R7MbsZhxB8uo3xvVsS6JWjRV4p2BcgCBVWtVaJ6Tr4ONYA@mail.gmail.com> |
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 12:25 PM, David Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > > I thought the retention of RCU locking was reasonable, and that your > feedback was something I disagreed with. > > This is different from ignoring your feedback. The point is we don't need to backport the patch that far, as I already mentioned, up to commit c15b1ccadb323ea ("ipv6: move DAD and addrconf_verify processing to workqueue"), simply because no one reports any bug. So we don't have to adjust the patch just for stable in this case.