Re: Glibc recvmsg from kernel netlink socket hangs forever

From: Steven Schlansker
Date: Mon Oct 05 2015 - 19:26:12 EST



On Sep 25, 2015, at 7:58 PM, Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 09/25/2015 02:37 PM, Steven Schlansker wrote:
>>
>>
>> Thank you for the patches to try, I'll build a kernel with them early next week
>> and report back. It sounds like it may not match my problem exactly so we'll
>> see.
>>
>
> For 4.0.x, you _really_ need to update to 4.0.9 to get the following two patches.
>
> cf8befcc1a55 netlink: Disable insertions/removals during rehash
> 18889a4315a5 netlink: Reset portid after netlink_insert failure

Hi Guenter,

Thank you very much for the information. We upgraded to 4.0.9 and all indications are that
the issue is gone. I will follow up if that is not the case.

Thank you everyone for your guidance.

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