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SubjectRe: [PATCH net v2] ipv6: fix rtnl locking in setsockopt for anycast and multicast
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On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 12:25 PM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 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.


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