On August 18, 2018 8:18:51 AM PDT, Daniel Alvarez Sanchez <[email protected]> 
wrote:
>Thanks a lot Ben.
>It was fixed in glibc 2.28. Shall I send a patch to add the comment in
>the
>code? I think it's a good idea so that we can remove the workaround
>eventually. Not sure about sending a patch for just a comment though :)
>
>On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 10:40 PM Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 05:39:07PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>> > On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 02:07:45PM +0200, Daniel Alvarez wrote:
>> > > This patch in glibc [0] is fixing a bug where we may be getting
>> > > inconsistent dumps from the kernel when listing interfaces due to
>> > > a race condition.
>> > >
>> > > This could happen if we try to retrieve them while interfaces are
>> > > being added/removed from the system at the same time.
>> > > For systems running against old glibc versions, this patch is
>retrying
>> > > the operation up to 3 times and then proceeding by logging a
>> > > warning.
>> > >
>> > > Note that 3 times should be enough to not delay the operation
>much
>> > > and since it's unlikely that we hit the race condition 3 times in
>> > > a row. Still, if this happened, this patch is not changing the
>> > > current behavior.
>> > >
>> > > [0]
>>
>https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=c1f86a33ca32e26a9d6e29fc961e5ecb5e2e5eb4
>> > >
>> > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Alvarez <[email protected]>
>> > > Co-authored-by: Jiri Benc <[email protected]>
>> >
>> > Thanks for the patch.
>> >
>> > As a co-author, Jiri also needs to sign off.
>> >
>> > Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <[email protected]>
>>
>> I see that Jiri signed off earlier and it just didn't get propagated.
>>
>> Thanks, I applied this to master and branch-2.10.
>>

The comment would be useful, so if you have time for it please send a patch.

Thanks,

Ben.
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