From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Hutchings Subject: Re: netlink: 12 bytes leftover after parsing attributes - triggered by iproute2 libnetlink's rtnl_dump_request() Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:00:30 +0000 Message-ID: <1332255630.8043.11.camel@deadeye> References: <20120320134107.6acea83c@pluto.restena.lu> <20120320074140.39a1b3f0@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha512"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-EWDK+6KGmgCYzgixGK+D" Cc: Bruno =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Pr=E9mont?= , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Greg Rose To: Stephen Hemminger Return-path: Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:52604 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760119Ab2CTPAr (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Mar 2012 11:00:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20120320074140.39a1b3f0@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-EWDK+6KGmgCYzgixGK+D Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 07:41 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: >=20 > >=20 > > Should this get fixed at kernel level, iproute2 libnetlink level or > > at end-user level (e.g. collectd)? > > Three lines every 10 seconds is a damn lot! > >=20 > > Thanks, > > Bruno >=20 > Netlink is supposed to be encoded as Type-Length-Value and correctly writ= ten > programs ignore types they don't understand. So either the library is get= ting > confused by the type or the attribute is not encoded correctly. >=20 >=20 > The issue could be in libnetlink library. What version of collectd and li= bnetlink > are you using? This was also reported as provoked by a client using the ntrack rtnetlink code: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/224236 Ben. --=20 Ben Hutchings I'm always amazed by the number of people who take up solipsism because they heard someone else explain it. - E*Borg on alt.fan.pratchett --=-EWDK+6KGmgCYzgixGK+D Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQIVAwUAT2ibjue/yOyVhhEJAQqs8hAApYnir3cU4Q6iZmJLnfKMrS3/Mpps+ZQ9 raJxw8k1YN5lMEjALblGRdMjToueimbkrxHUPm3rBpa3w8wSi5X3ZzgB5Mb1WSyr IaKGPWz4/F/2z1saFCnlVEuEKQ/2stP3M0uuL+qYvkUFbs+HX7X/b+TzbHRNGoVq s6cyjVKIbZJxHxGPsSqDfaqMtt+Es4WJvvj2atcvh1JAIrN7HZ8bmxgaUYYnIOjx szcfTsK6QDRgUVB+iMGPRX7bZ0RUNQF3xwppARBDWZMG9tHoCQNQJ15ToqAn6naZ 7GkWx+wASibp5PbsLkknWddBGi7nVMqjhdLkiKm8waxigAjG5pUv9ZsSSeMyBnuU BUg/clA2MaL8kpOBCLx/TjkSmXa9INSGYS944MednOqErYQ4pk7RxS1/fkMU48lt MyTamJBdx928i9pAljIe8c7jn9GD3xI5uFGKAEOwkjsFuvQXEVTc4Ljcj0MMIdjs pX8bHfbeqxOWkMDx4zXO9hscT8Pv48MadiMlPasKiBXMXAdpSWK9/JzcdVbBv/iH gKofpH6h7ht41UrpDAm1i0K+qzDe9qYEh478A5CpwPFBHmtOt2K8hwFTZ3mYLqU0 gZLmuFCXYHphipWhCBdvrf6AklGYKZtIJt4AvdI4XB0iRkjfK6okOCHgcURFI2Oa JfD+9qFDn60= =x3eH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-EWDK+6KGmgCYzgixGK+D--