The nl_sock_transact_multiple function enters in an infinite loop, when invalid error, EINVAL, is returned by nl_sock_transact_multiple__. EINVAL is the error returned by the latter function when a driver request fails.
Signed-off-by: Sorin Vinturis <svintu...@cloudbasesolutions.com> Reported-by: Alin Gabriel Serdean <aserd...@cloudbasesolutions.com> Reported-at: https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs-issues/issues/57 --- lib/netlink-socket.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/lib/netlink-socket.c b/lib/netlink-socket.c index fab2a66..cdc80e5 100644 --- a/lib/netlink-socket.c +++ b/lib/netlink-socket.c @@ -909,6 +909,10 @@ nl_sock_transact_multiple(struct nl_sock *sock, } else if (error) { VLOG_ERR_RL(&rl, "transaction error (%s)", ovs_strerror(error)); nl_sock_record_errors__(transactions, n, error); + if (error == EINVAL) { + /* driver request failed. */ + break; + } } } } -- 1.9.0.msysgit.0 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
