Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Bug: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8876
>
> Not all ips are shown by "ip addr show" command when IPs number assigned to an
> interface is more than 60-80 (in fact it depends on broadcast/label etc
> presence on each address).
>
> Steps to reproduce:
> It's terribly simple to reproduce:
>
> # for i in $(seq 1 100); do ip ad add 10.0.$i.1/24 dev eth10 ; done
> # ip addr show
>
> this will _not_ show all IPs.
> Looks like the problem is in netlink/ipv4 message processing.
>
> This is fix from bug submitter, it looks correct.
>   

The same bug was introduced in decnet. Both are 2.6.22 regressions.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>