Bugzilla Bug 86729

A bug has been found in iproute2-2.6.11-0503xx that breaks the creation of
dsmark qdiscs.  Below is a fairly simply tc command, but tc chokes on it (even
though dsmark capabilities are built into both iproute2 and my gentoo kernel
2.6.11):

> tc qdisc add dev eth0 handle 1:0 root dsmark indices 8 default_index 0
RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument

The bug report from the LARTC mailing list is here:
http://mailman.ds9a.nl/pipermail/lartc/2005q1/015295.html
and the developer patch is here: 
http://mailman.ds9a.nl/pipermail/lartc/2005q1/015298.html

I will attach the patch, which I've applied to my portage overlay directory for
iproute2.  It seems to have solved the problem.

In case you need it, my "emerge info" is below.  Thanks!

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Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.4.3-20050110,
glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r1, 2.6.11-gentoo-r4 i686)
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System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r4 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.10
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.2.3-r5,dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1,
Feb 18 2005, 12:45:48)]
dev-lang/python:     2.2.3-r5, 2.3.5
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.59-r6, 2.13
sys-devel/automake:  1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.5
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r7
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.14
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.8.1-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config
/usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config
/usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config
/usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb
/usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ ftp://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/
http://www.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo
ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X aalib acl adns alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt
cups curl dga directfb dvd dvdr emboss encode esd fam fbcon flac flash
font-server foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm ggi gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk
gtk2 imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 java jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww mad maildir
matrox mbox mcal mikmod mmx motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql nas ncurses nls odbc
oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png ppds python qt quicktime readline
samba sasl scanner sdl slang snmp speex spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff
truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb x86 xml xml2 xmms xv zlib"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS

Created an attachment (id=54492) [edit]
A patch to fix the dsmark qdisc problems in tc

this breakage was mentioned in Bug 81383

thanks for the info, fixed with iproute2-2.6.11.20050310-r1