Re: Glibc recvmsg from kernel netlink socket hangs forever

[Guenter Roeck]

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

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