Bug 24585 – ping6 doesn't receive any packets

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Jan Oravec 2003-07-16 06:47:36 UTC]

ping6 sends packets to destination, kernel receives echo reply, but recvmsg() 
call gets just EAGAIN, seems like bug in kernel, (missing htons() or ntohs() 
call or that size_t is 8 ???)

there is no firewall installed

the kernel used is 2.4.21-sparc-r0, relevant parts from .config:

#
# Networking options
#
CONFIG_PACKET=y
CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP=y
CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER=y
# CONFIG_NETFILTER_DEBUG is not set
CONFIG_FILTER=y
CONFIG_UNIX=y
CONFIG_INET=y
CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST=y
CONFIG_IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER=y
CONFIG_IP_MULTIPLE_TABLES=y
CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_FWMARK=y
CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_NAT=y
CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH=y
CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_TOS=y
CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_VERBOSE=y
CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_LARGE_TABLES=y
# CONFIG_IP_PNP is not set
CONFIG_NET_IPIP=m
CONFIG_NET_IPGRE=m
CONFIG_NET_IPGRE_BROADCAST=y
CONFIG_IP_MROUTE=y
CONFIG_IP_PIMSM_V1=y
CONFIG_IP_PIMSM_V2=y
# CONFIG_ARPD is not set
# CONFIG_INET_ECN is not set
CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES=y
CONFIG_IPV6=m


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.modprobe ipv6
2.ping6 -c 5 ::1

Actual Results:  
PING ::1(::1) 56 data bytes

--- ::1 ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 4014ms

# /usr/sbin/tcpdump -i lo -n
tcpdump: listening on lo
15:45:47.359586 ::1 > ::1: icmp6: echo request
15:45:47.359622 ::1 > ::1: icmp6: echo reply
15:45:48.376275 ::1 > ::1: icmp6: echo request
15:45:48.376293 ::1 > ::1: icmp6: echo reply
15:45:49.376289 ::1 > ::1: icmp6: echo request
15:45:49.376307 ::1 > ::1: icmp6: echo reply
15:45:50.376276 ::1 > ::1: icmp6: echo request
15:45:50.376293 ::1 > ::1: icmp6: echo reply
15:45:51.376275 ::1 > ::1: icmp6: echo request
15:45:51.376293 ::1 > ::1: icmp6: echo reply


Expected Results:  
notify about echo replies

Portage 2.0.48-r1 (default-sparc64-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.1-r4)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.21-sparc-r0 sparc64 sun4u
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.inode.at/source/ 
http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ 
http://194.83.57.11/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/confi
g /usr/kde/3/share/config /var/bind"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
USE="sparc apm avi encode esd fbcon imlib libwww mad mikmod motif nls oggvorbis 
oss opengl spell xv xml2 xmms gdbm berkdb slang readline tcpd perl python -
3dfx -3dnow aalib acl -alsa apache2 -arts -bonobo -cdr -cjk crypt -cups curl -
dga doc -emacs gif -gnome gpm -gtk -gtk2 -imap innodb ipv6 java jpeg -kde -
kerberos -krb4 maildir mbox -mozilla -mpeg mysql ncurses pam pdflib png -qt -
samba -sdl snmp ssl -svga tetex truetype -X zlib"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CHOST="sparc-unknown-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-mcpu=ultrasparc -O3 -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=ultrasparc -O3 -pipe"
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="sparc ~sparc"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
FEATURES="sandbox ccache"

[Comment 1 Andrew Cooks (RETIRED) 2003-12-11 14:33:37 UTC]

I'm not a sparc or ipv6 user, but this bug is quite old and a newer version of sparc-sources (and presumably other involved packages as well) is available.

Could you test again with the latest sources and report back?

[Comment 2 Josh Grebe (RETIRED) 2003-12-31 14:32:07 UTC]

I'll try this after the holiday, adding myself to the list so I don't forget.

[Comment 3 Keith M Wesolowski (RETIRED) 2004-01-02 22:31:14 UTC]

This was a sparc64-specific kernel bug.  Dave Miller fixed it shortly after the bug was entered, so it should definitely be fixed in the current sources.

[Comment 4 Gustavo Zacarias (RETIRED) 2004-01-29 18:03:35 UTC]

This works with the latest stable kernel, sparc-sources-2.4.24.