From: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Steven Schlansker <stevenschlansker@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Glibc recvmsg from kernel netlink socket hangs forever
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 22:34:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5604DCD2.4090600@roeck-us.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150925045853.GA5286@gondor.apana.org.au>
Herbert,
On 09/24/2015 09:58 PM, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 09:36:53PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>>
>> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/363085
>>
>> might explain your problem.
>>
>> I thought this was resolved in 4.1, but it looks like the problem still persists
>> there. At least I have reports from my workplace that 4.1.6 and 4.1.7 are still
>> affected. I don't know if there have been any relevant changes in 4.2.
>>
>> Copying Herbert and Eric for additional input.
>
> There was a separate bug discovered by Tejun recently. You need
> to apply the patches
>
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/519245/
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/520824/
>
I assume this is on top of mainline ?
> There is another follow-up but it shouldn't make any difference
> in practice.
>
Any idea what may be needed for 4.1 ?
I am currently trying https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/473041/,
but I have no idea if that will help with the problem we are seeing there.
Thanks,
Guenter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-25 5:34 UTC|newest]
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[not found] ` <20150925043653.GA29111@roeck-us.net>
2015-09-25 4:58 ` Glibc recvmsg from kernel netlink socket hangs forever Herbert Xu
2015-09-25 5:34 ` Guenter Roeck [this message]
2015-09-25 15:55 ` Herbert Xu
2015-09-25 16:14 ` Guenter Roeck
2015-09-26 3:45 ` Guenter Roeck
2015-09-25 21:37 ` Steven Schlansker
2015-09-25 21:54 ` Steven Schlansker
2015-09-26 2:58 ` Guenter Roeck
2015-10-05 23:26 ` Steven Schlansker
2015-10-05 23:30 ` Guenter Roeck
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