netdev - Re: inbound connection problems when "netlink: test for all flags of the NLM_F

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Date:	Sun, 16 Jan 2011 23:09:50 +1030
From:	Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@...ernode.on.net>
To:	Linux Networking Developer Mailing List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: inbound connection problems when "netlink: test for all flags
 of the NLM_F_DUMP composite" commit applied

Jan Engelhardt wrote, on 16/01/11 21:20:
 >
 > Le dimanche 16 janvier 2011 à 19:24 +1030, Arthur Marsh a écrit :
 >>
 >>> With kernels up to and including 2.6.37-git7, inbound telnetd-ssl
 >>> connections worked fine. With kernel 2.6.37-git9 and later inbound
 >>> telnetd-ssl connections failed, and on machine shut-down, there
 >>> were warning messages about daemons not return status.
 >
 > Which daemons are these? For reference, what distro do you happen
 > to use?

avahi-daemon (which gave multiple warning messages, hence I thought it 
may have been multiple packages)

I'm running Debian unstable with kernel.org kernels.

 >
 >>> commit 0ab03c2b1478f2438d2c80204f7fef65b1bca9cf
 >>>      netlink: test for all flags of the NLM_F_DUMP composite
 >
 > Each of the hunks in this commit is independent of another.
 > Would you mind bisecting these too?

Recompiling with the only the first patch (attached) resulted in a 
repeat of the problem.

Arthur.

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