Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm2: Assigning IP address fails

On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 17:46:09 -0400
jfannin@gmail.com (Joseph Fannin) wrote:

On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 10:03:13PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

quoted

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.22-rc4/2.6.22-rc4-mm2/

    I'm not able to bring an ethernet interface down and back up again
with this if avahi-autoipd is installed on my Ubuntu boxes.  I've seen
it on three different computers with different NIC hardware.

    I've worked out an easy way to reproduce it without
avahi-autoipd.  Starting with eth0 up (address assigned by DHCP):

  # ifdown eth0
  < dhclient makes the normal noise about releasing the address >
  # ip addr add 169.254.255.67/16 brd 169.254.255.255 label eth0:avahi scope link dev eth0
  # ip addr del 169.154.255.67/16 brd 169.254.255.255 label eth0:avahi scope link dev eth0
  # ifup eth0
  SIOCSIFADDR: No buffer space available    < -- first sign of trouble HERE
  < dhclient copyright boilerplate >
  Listening on LPF/eth0/<MAC addr>
  Sending on   LPF/eth0/<MAC addr>
  Sending on   Socket/fallback
  DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
  DHCPOFFER from < DHCP server >
  DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
  DHCPACK from  < DHCP server >
  SIOCSIFADDR: No buffer space available
  SIOCSIFNETMASK: Cannot assign requested address
  SIOCSIFBRDADDR: Cannot assign requested address
  SIOCADDRTL No such process
  bound to < IP address > -- renewal in XXXX seconds
  #

    At this point, the interface is up, but has no address assigned.
Manually assigning one with ifconfig fails:

  # ifconfig eth0 netmask 255.255.255.0 172.16.0.1
  SIOCSIFNETMASK: Cannot assign requested address
  SIOCSIFADDR: No buffer space available
  #

... and a reboot is the only way I've been able to get the interface
to work again.

    The last kernels I tried were 2.6.22-rc3 and *I think*
2.6.22-rc1-mm1, neither of which had this problem.  I will test
2.6.22-rc4 and 2.6.22-rc3-mm1 later, but I'm out of time today.

    I've attached my .config .

Yep, thanks - Miles has reported the same thing.