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Date:      Mon, 24 Feb 2014 00:34:28 -0800
From:      Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@crodrigues.org>
To:        "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:  <CAG=rPVe4J7e192Z9eS%2BoqhkdZujrVn3t5=JsvJ2PT_VA9TF9bg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <D23407A9-35AC-4B5A-904D-B1BD333B46C0@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201402230127.s1N1RMoX052542@svn.freebsd.org> <D23407A9-35AC-4B5A-904D-B1BD333B46C0@FreeBSD.org>

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On Feb 23, 2014 2:56 PM, "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <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

--
Craig



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