Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 9543] New: RTNL: assertion failed at net/ipv6/addrconf.c (2164)/RTNL: assertion failed at net/ipv4/devinet.c (1055)

From: Andrew Morton <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:30:27 -0800

On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:04:27 +0100 (CET) Krzysztof Oledzki <[email-masked]> wrote:

> >>  [<783bfa72>] rt_run_flush+0x43/0x8b
> >>  [<783bfa93>] rt_run_flush+0x64/0x8b
> >>  [<7813ac54>] notifier_call_chain+0x2a/0x52
> >>  [<7813ac9e>] raw_notifier_call_chain+0x17/0x1a
> >>  [<783a3471>] netdev_state_change+0x18/0x29
> >>  [<783ac6a9>] __linkwatch_run_queue+0x150/0x17e
> >>  [<783ac6f4>] linkwatch_event+0x1d/0x22
> >>  [<78133cdf>] run_workqueue+0xdb/0x1b6
> >>  [<78133c8b>] run_workqueue+0x87/0x1b6
> >>  [<783ac6d7>] linkwatch_event+0x0/0x22
> >>  [<781346ff>] worker_thread+0x0/0x85
> >>  [<78134778>] worker_thread+0x79/0x85
> >>  [<781371ad>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x35
> >>  [<781370f6>] kthread+0x38/0x5e
> >>  [<781370be>] kthread+0x0/0x5e
> >>  [<78104baf>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
> >>  =======================
> >> RTNL: assertion failed at net/ipv6/addrconf.c (1610)
> >
> >
> > Hopefully this is due to the bug you reported in bug #9542.
> >
> > Does this patch fix both issues?
> 
> Unfortunately not. I just updated bugzilla.

argh.  Please conduct these discussions via emailed reply-to-all, not via
the bugzilla web interface.

I think my patch _did_ fix http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9542
But then you hit a new bonding locking bug.

Rafael, please track 9542 and 9543 as post-2.6.23 regressions, thanks.