Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751120Ab0GIEeK (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jul 2010 00:34:10 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:53439 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750802Ab0GIEeI convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jul 2010 00:34:08 -0400 Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 21:34:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20100708.213420.112614033.davem@davemloft.net> To: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: rjw@sisk.pl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, kaber@trash.net, jengelh@medozas.de Subject: Re: 2.6.35-rc4-git3: Reported regressions from 2.6.34 From: David Miller In-Reply-To: References: <-IGZ64uxA6G.A.P0H.bLmNMB@chimera> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.3 on Emacs 23.1 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1254 Lines: 28 From: Linus Torvalds Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 18:34:25 -0700 > On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: >> >> Bug-Entry ? ? ? : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16187 >> Subject ? ? ? ? : Carrier detection failed in dhcpcd when link is up >> Submitter ? ? ? : Christian Casteyde >> Date ? ? ? ? ? ?: 2010-06-12 15:15 (27 days old) >> First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/linus/10708f37ae729baba9b67bd134c3720709d4ae62 >> Handled-By ? ? ?: Andrew Morton > > David? This bisects to a networking commit. Doesn't look sensible, but > what do I know? My suspicion is that dhcpd uses netlink to dump the info of the available links, and due to some bug gets confused with the new 64-bit statistic netlink attribute being there now. That shouldn't happen, applications should just ignore the attributes which they don't understand. I'll try to find a second to have a look at this. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/