[FRR announce] Kernel Bug with address retrieval
Donald Sharp
sharpd at cumulusnetworks.com
Fri Jan 18 11:37:42 EST 2019
All -
The 4.20 linux kernel has a bug with sending link addresses to
user-space causing some of them not to be read. The tl;dr; is that
after one skb of data sent up, the data is stopped from being sent.
If you have a small number of addresses assigned to a box, then you
will probably not notice a problem. At this time I would not
recommend using linux kernel 4.20 for production network uses. The
commit that fixes this is this:
commit 7c1e8a3817c55d73b27cc29b84075999c8894179
Author: Arthur Gautier <baloo at gandi.net>
Date: Mon Dec 31 02:10:58 2018 +0000
netlink: fixup regression in RTM_GETADDR
It is my understanding that this was introduced in 4.19-next. This
fix should be available in one of the upcoming 4.20.X releases as I
understand it.
thanks!
donald
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