Re: [PATCH] Account for alloca use when collecting interface addresses

[Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at redhat dot com>]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 03:41:54PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 03:04:23PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> >> # ip li add name dummy0 type dummy
> >> # site_id=$(head -c6 /dev/urandom | od -tx2 -An | tr ' ' ':')
> >> # for ((i = 0; i < 65536; i++)) do
> >> > ip ad ad $(printf fd80$site_id::%04x $i)/128 dev dummy0
> >> > done
> >> # (ulimit -s 900; getent ahosts localhost)
> >> # ip li de dummy0
> >
> > This needs a more verbose description for the commit log.
> 
> It's just the reproducer, you can try yourself without breaking anything
> (unless you already have a dummy0 device).

Oh I got that; I just thought that it would be a good idea to put it
in the commit log since we can't add it in the testsuite and hence
suggested putting some English text around it to describe it, which is
kind of what you did in your commit :)

Siddhesh

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