netdev - Re: [PATCH] devinet: show all addresses assigned to interface

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Date:	Thu, 06 Sep 2007 20:15:40 +0200
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] devinet: show all addresses assigned to interface

Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Bug: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8876
>
> Not all ips are shown by "ip addr show" command when IPs number assigned to an
> interface is more than 60-80 (in fact it depends on broadcast/label etc
> presence on each address).
>
> Steps to reproduce:
> It's terribly simple to reproduce:
>
> # for i in $(seq 1 100); do ip ad add 10.0.$i.1/24 dev eth10 ; done
> # ip addr show
>
> this will _not_ show all IPs.
> Looks like the problem is in netlink/ipv4 message processing.
>
> This is fix from bug submitter, it looks correct.
>   

The same bug was introduced in decnet. Both are 2.6.22 regressions.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>

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