netdev - Re: [iproute PATCH v2 1/6] ipaddress: make flush command more error-tolerant

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Date:	Mon, 23 Nov 2015 16:31:15 -0800
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemming@...cade.com>
To:	Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>
CC:	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [iproute PATCH v2 1/6] ipaddress: make flush command more
 error-tolerant

On Sun,  8 Nov 2015 21:22:16 +0100
Phil Sutter <phil@....cc> wrote:

> The core issue here is that with promote_secondaries sysctl setting
> being turned off, removing the primary address implicitly removes all
> secondaries as well. Iproute is aware of this and therefore tries to
> remove all secondary addresses first to circumvent errors due to
> removing non-existent addresses. But this works only if not too many IP
> addresses are assigned to an interface, otherwise the RTM_GETADDR
> response is split up into multiple buffers. In my test-case, flushing
> more than 42 IPv4 addresses was sufficient to trigger an error:
> 
> Failed to send flush request: Cannot assign requested address
> 
> This patch fixes the issue by simply ignoring EADDRNOTAVAIL when
> flushing.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>

Patch does not apply to current tree. I applied an earlier patch from Neil Horman
and this supersedes this.

Please redo the patch series.
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