On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 04:06:25PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote: > 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.
Actually in his case it's because 2.6.22-rc4-git2 doesn't have the following changeset. Let me have a think about your approach too. Thanks, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- commit 6363097cc4d182f93788131b5d8f72aa91d950a0 Author: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu Jun 7 18:35:38 2007 -0700 [IPV4]: Do not remove idev when addresses are cleared Now that we create idev before addresses are added, it no longer makes sense to remove them when addresses are all deleted. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 6363097cc4d182f93788131b5d8f72aa91d950a0 diff --git a/net/ipv4/devinet.c b/net/ipv4/devinet.c index fa97b96..abf6352 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/devinet.c +++ b/net/ipv4/devinet.c @@ -327,12 +327,8 @@ static void __inet_del_ifa(struct in_device *in_dev, struct in_ifaddr **ifap, } } - if (destroy) { + if (destroy) inet_free_ifa(ifa1); - - if (!in_dev->ifa_list) - inetdev_destroy(in_dev); - } } static void inet_del_ifa(struct in_device *in_dev, struct in_ifaddr **ifap, - 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
