[pkg-dhcp-devel] Bug#553211: /sbin/dhclient: Patch.

Andrew Pollock apollock at debian.org
Sun Nov 20 05:05:54 UTC 2011


On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 04:18:11PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> Package: isc-dhcp-client
> Version: 4.1.1-P1-15+squeeze2
> Severity: normal
> File: /sbin/dhclient
> Tags: patch
> 
> 
> Sending patch which works around this issue.

Thankyou for the patch. Sorry I've only just gotten around to looking at it.

[snip]

> 
> This patch relies on kernel cache to hold the "ifconfig" and "route"
> binaries while the network is down and on the network filesystem driver
> to retry any transactions that might get lost while networking is
> reenacted by dhclient.

So if I'm reading your patch correctly, it looks like just the act of doing
an ifconfig up of an already up interface is enough to cause an NFS-mounted
root filesystem to lose the plot?

Unfortunately since you wrote your patch, we've gone and changed
dhclient-script to use iproute2 instead of ifconfig and friends, so I'd like
to know if the "ip link set dev blah up" we're now doing in place of the
ifconfig call also causes the problem.

If so, it won't be a problem for me to take the intent of your patch and
adjust it for the way dhclient-script looks today.
 
regards

Andrew
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