netdev - Re: 4.4-rc7 failure report

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Date:	Tue, 29 Dec 2015 19:43:01 -0800
From:	Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
To:	Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>
Cc:	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 4.4-rc7 failure report

On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 08:26:44PM -0500, Doug Ledford wrote:
> On 12/28/2015 05:20 PM, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> > On 12/28/2015 10:53 PM, Doug Ledford wrote:
> >> The 4.4-rc7 kernel is failing for me.  In my case, all of my vlan
> >> interfaces are failing to obtain a dhcp address using dhclient.  I've
> >> tried a hand built 4.4-rc7, and the Fedora rawhide 4.4-rc7 kernel, both
> >> failed.  I've tried NetworkManager and the old SysV network service,
> >> both fail.  I tried a working dhclient from rhel7 on the Fedora rawhide
> >> install and it failed too.  Running tcpdump on the interface shows the
> >> dhcp request going out, and a dhcp response coming back in.  Running
> >> strace on dhclient shows that it writes the dhcp request, but it never
> >> recvs a dhcp response.  If I manually bring the interface up with a
> >> static IP address then I'm able to run typical IP traffic across the
> >> link (aka, ping).  It would seem that when dhclient registers a packet
> >> filter on the socket, that filter is preventing it from ever getting the
> >> dhcp response.  The same dhclient works on any non-vlan interfaces in
> >> the system, so the filter must work for non-vlan interfaces.  Aside from
> >> the fact that the interface is a vlan, we also use a priority egress map
> >> on the interface, and we use PFC flow control.  Let me know if you need
> >> anymore to debug the issue, or email me off list and I can get you
> >> logins to my reproducer machines.
> > 
> > When you say 4.4-rc7 kernel is failing for you, what latest kernel version
> > was working, where the socket filter was properly receiving the response on
> > your vlan iface?
> 
> v4.3 final works.  I haven't bisected where in the 4.4 series it quits
> working.  I can do that tomorrow.

I've tried to reproduce, but cannot seem to make dnsmasq work properly
over vlan, so bisect would be great.

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