Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Dienstag, 12. Juni 2007 schrieb Patrick McHardy: > >>Oliver Neukum wrote: >> >>>with 2.6.22-rc4-git2 I am getting errors when setting IP for ethernet >>>interfaces: >>> >>>ioctl(4, SIOCSIFADDR, 0x7fff94931600) = -1 ENOBUFS (No buffer space >>>available) >>> >>>The error is independant of the interface. It happens to all interfaces. >>>There's nothing in the syslog. >>> >>>valisk:/home/oliver # uname -a >>>Linux valisk 2.6.22-rc4-git2-default #3 SMP Tue Jun 12 13:27:54 CEST 2007 >>>x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux >> >> >>This can happen if the initial inetdev allocation when the netdevice is >>registered fails. I think it would make sense to try to allocate again >>when adding addresses in that case, otherwise there is no way of >>recovery other than unregistering and registering the device again. > > > With your patch the problem has gone away. Is there a way to especially > stress the system in that regard?
Its a failed allocation at NETDEV_REGISTER time. I guess you could keep unloading + reloading the driver module to try to reproduce it. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
