I've extracted a reproducer for another bug. This one seems to be much closer to what Dmitry reported intially. ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 3892 at net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c:1472 fib6_del+0xa60/0xdc0 Modules linked in: CPU: 1 PID: 3892 Comm: a.out Not tainted 4.11.0-rc7+ #251 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011 Call Trace: __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:16 dump_stack+0x292/0x398 lib/dump_stack.c:52 __warn+0x19f/0x1e0 kernel/panic.c:549 warn_slowpath_null+0x2c/0x40 kernel/panic.c:584 fib6_del+0xa60/0xdc0 net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c:1472 fib6_clean_node+0x3ce/0x550 net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c:1652 fib6_walk_continue+0x577/0x760 net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c:1578 fib6_walk+0x91/0xf0 net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c:1623 fib6_clean_tree+0x266/0x3c0 net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c:1695 __fib6_clean_all+0x1f7/0x3b0 net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c:1711 fib6_clean_all+0x27/0x30 net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c:1722 rt6_ifdown+0xf7/0x910 net/ipv6/route.c:2820 addrconf_ifdown+0x1a3/0x1aa0 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3541 addrconf_notify+0x1bb/0x2570 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3466 notifier_call_chain+0x145/0x2f0 kernel/notifier.c:93 __raw_notifier_call_chain kernel/notifier.c:394 raw_notifier_call_chain+0x2d/0x40 kernel/notifier.c:401 call_netdevice_notifiers_info+0x51/0x90 net/core/dev.c:1647 call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:1663 __dev_notify_flags+0x1fd/0x320 net/core/dev.c:6499 dev_change_flags+0xf5/0x140 net/core/dev.c:6530 dev_ifsioc+0x62a/0x9f0 net/core/dev_ioctl.c:254 dev_ioctl+0x249/0x1160 net/core/dev_ioctl.c:532 sock_do_ioctl+0x94/0xb0 net/socket.c:913 sock_ioctl+0x28f/0x440 net/socket.c:1004 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:45 do_vfs_ioctl+0x1bf/0x1780 fs/ioctl.c:685 SYSC_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:700 SyS_ioctl+0x8f/0xc0 fs/ioctl.c:691 entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0xc2 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:204 RIP: 0033:0x7f575ded4347 RSP: 002b:00007fffc94d9948 EFLAGS: 00000217 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fffc94d9b30 RCX: 00007f575ded4347 RDX: 00007fffc94d9980 RSI: 0000000000008914 RDI: 0000000000000006 RBP: 00000000004004e0 R08: 0000000000000028 R09: 0101010101010101 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000217 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: 00007fffc94d9b30 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 ---[ end trace 9bda4459ad907043 ]---