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Date:      Mon, 24 Feb 2014 13:50:41 +0400
From:      "Andrey V. Elsukov" <ae@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@crodrigues.org>,  "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bz@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r262351 - head/sys/netinet6
Message-ID:  <530B15F1.5050300@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAG=rPVe4J7e192Z9eS%2BoqhkdZujrVn3t5=JsvJ2PT_VA9TF9bg@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <201402230127.s1N1RMoX052542@svn.freebsd.org>	<D23407A9-35AC-4B5A-904D-B1BD333B46C0@FreeBSD.org> <CAG=rPVe4J7e192Z9eS%2BoqhkdZujrVn3t5=JsvJ2PT_VA9TF9bg@mail.gmail.com>

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On 24.02.2014 12:34, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> 
> On Feb 23, 2014 2:56 PM, "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bz@freebsd.org
> <mailto:bz@freebsd.org>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 23 Feb 2014, at 01:27 , Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>
>> > Author: rodrigc
>> > Date: Sun Feb 23 01:27:22 2014
>> > New Revision: 262351
>> > URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/262351
>> >
>> > Log:
>> >  Remove KASSERT from in6p_lookup_mcast_ifp().
>> >
>> >  When the devel/jenkins port, version 1.551 was started,
>> >  the kernel would panic if INVARIANTS was enabled in the kernel config.
>> >
>> >  Suggested by: bms
>>
>> This reads to me “we hit the assert, bms suggested to remove it”.
>  Great!  Caught a bug!  Where is it?  In no way the commit message tells
> me why?   Why did we not hit the assert in the last n years? What has
> changed that we hit it now? Was the assert wrong from the beginning?
>  Did we hit a real bug elsewhere and now lost the tracking for it?
>>
>> Could you please at least for the archives explain?
> 
> Bruce suggested that I remove the KASSERT here:
> 
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2013-October/036806.html

There was my analysis:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2013-August/036545.html

I think it is safe to remove this KASSERT.

-- 
WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov



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