Re: 2.6.35-rc4-git3: Reported regressions from 2.6.34

[David Miller]

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 18:34:25 -0700

> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Bug-Entry       : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16187
>> Subject         : Carrier detection failed in dhcpcd when link is up
>> Submitter       : Christian Casteyde <casteyde.christian@xxxxxxx>
>> Date            : 2010-06-12 15:15 (27 days old)
>> First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/linus/10708f37ae729baba9b67bd134c3720709d4ae62
>> Handled-By      : Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> David? This bisects to a networking commit. Doesn't look sensible, but
> what do I know?

My suspicion is that dhcpd uses netlink to dump the info of the
available links, and due to some bug gets confused with the new 64-bit
statistic netlink attribute being there now.

That shouldn't happen, applications should just ignore the attributes
which they don't understand.

I'll try to find a second to have a look at this.
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