Re: [PATCH] hv_set_ifconfig.sh double check before setting ip

From: Eduardo Otubo
Date: Thu Aug 10 2017 - 03:40:40 EST


On 08/09/2017 11:02 AM, Eduardo Otubo wrote:
On 08/09/2017 06:11 AM, David Miller wrote:
From: Eduardo Otubo <otubo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2017 15:53:45 +0200

This patch fixes the behavior of the hv_set_ifconfig script when setting
the interface ip. Sometimes the interface has already been configured by
network daemon, in this case hv_set_ifconfig causes "RTNETLINK: file
exists error"; in order to avoid this error this patch makes sure double
checks the interface before trying anything.

Signed-off-by: Eduardo Otubo <otubo@xxxxxxxxxx>

And if the daemon sets the address after you test it but before
you try to set it in the script, what happens?

This is why I hate changes like this. They don't remove the problem,
they make it smaller. And smaller in a bad way. Smaller makes the
problem even more harder to diagnose when it happens.

There is implicitly no synchonization between network configuration
daemons and things people run by hand like this script.

So, caveat emptor.

I'm not applying this, sorry.

But also, looking from a different point of view, the current upstream solution does not avoid the problems you mentioned. My fix at least avoids double configuration and RTNETLINK errors. So perhaps you could consider this as "a better version walking towards an ideal fix"?



This is just part of the resolution, actually. For RHEL I also configure hyperv-daemons' systemd config file to be run only after network service is up.

So perhaps my solution should be distro-agnostic and only involve this script as part of it? In this case I'll elaborate a little more then.

Thanks for the comment.