Re: Strange PF_NETLINK NETLINK_ROUTE stall: netlink: Fix autobind race condition that leads to zero port ID

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Fri Dec 04 2015 - 20:10:21 EST


On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 04:23:54PM +0100, Philipp Hahn wrote:
>
> I observed a strange stall in a multi-threaded process (originally
> OpenLDAP slapd), which stalls during a call to getaddrinfo() after
> upgrading the kernel from 3.16.x to 4.1.12:

Can you try to see if the latest kernel still has this problem.
Unfortunately a number of fixes seem to not have made it into
4.1 so anything could happen there.

Thanks,
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