netdev - Re: Problem with talking to the kernel and iproute2/ifconfig

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Date:	Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:31:46 +0100
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Paweł Staszewski <pstaszewski@...are.pl>
CC:	Linux Network Development list <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Problem with talking to the kernel and iproute2/ifconfig

Paweł Staszewski wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I have strange problem with kernel 2.6.33.1
> 
> I have script with 6267 ip's
> 
> cat gateways.conf | grep 'addr add' | wc -l
> 6267
> 
> and when i want to commit this interfaces by command:
> ip -batch gateways.conf
> 
> I have only 680 ip interfaces
> ip a | grep inet | grep ' 10.' | wc -l
> 680
> 
> 
> I test this on kernels 2.6.29.1 and 2.6.30.1 and all was OK.
> on kernel 2.6.29.1
> 
> ip -batch gateways.conf
> ip a | grep inet | grep ' 10.' | wc -l
> 6267
> 
> on kernel 2.6.30.1
> ip -batch gateways.conf
> ip a | grep inet | grep ' 10.' | wc -l
> 6267

Does this patch help? When "idx" points to the last device
of a chain, it will never get incremented past s_idx and we
fail to reset s_ip_idx.


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