Bug 1458542 - kernel: ICMP rate limiting is too aggressive on loopback
Summary: kernel: ICMP rate limiting is too aggressive on loopback
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Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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: 1458586 (view as bug list)
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Blocks: 1461282
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Reported: 2017-06-04 07:16 UTC by Florian Weimer
Modified: 2017-06-14 10:38 UTC (History)
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: 1461282 (view as bug list)
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localhost-icmp.c (1.63 KB, text/x-csrc)
2017-06-04 07:16 UTC, Florian Weimer 		no flags Details
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Description Florian Weimer 2017-06-04 07:16:32 UTC 
Created attachment 1284717 [details]
localhost-icmp.c

Description of problem:

Aggressive ICMP rate limiting on the loopback interface causes test suite failures.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

kernel-4.11.3-200.fc25.x86_64

How reproducible:

Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Compile localhost-icmp.c.
2. Run ./localhost-icmp

Actual results:

Test runs into a timeout:

localhost-icmp: iteration 50: no ICMP message (poll timeout)

Expected results:

Test completes within a few milliseconds.

Additional info:

https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2017-06/msg00167.html
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=149656032817085
Comment 1 Florian Weimer 2017-06-04 15:28:16 UTC 
*** Bug 1458586 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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