FYI, we noticed the below changes on commit 5ad6300524c0332ac67e912c20d6e5cf262ba58f ("genetlink: disallow subscribing to unknown mcast groups") Although the frequency decreased a lot, from 100% to about 8.33%, we still find the warning in dmesg after applying the commit. [ 299.872857] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 300.039960] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 804 at net/netlink/genetlink.c:1037 genl_unbind+0xc0/0xd0() [ 300.360780] CPU: 0 PID: 804 Comm: trinity-main Not tainted 3.19.0-rc4-00160-g5ad6300 #11 [ 300.360783] Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011 [ 300.360793] ffffffff823ad820 ffff88001556be68 ffffffff81d86b84 0000000000000065 [ 300.360795] 0000000000000000 ffff88001556bea8 ffffffff810c2f30 ffffffff82635dc0 [ 300.360796] 0000000000000000 ffffffff82635dc0 0000000000000001 ffffffff836d7000 [ 300.360799] Call Trace: [ 300.361185] [] dump_stack+0x4f/0x7b [ 300.361254] [] warn_slowpath_common+0x80/0xc0 [ 300.361256] [] warn_slowpath_null+0x15/0x20 [ 300.361270] [] genl_unbind+0xc0/0xd0 [ 300.361272] [] netlink_setsockopt+0x24b/0x270 [ 300.361279] [] SyS_setsockopt+0x5e/0xc0 [ 300.361285] [] system_call_fastpath+0x12/0x17 [ 300.361296] ---[ end trace 5d4dac2c7bb8ca45 ]--- Thanks, Huang, Ying