bond0 cause [ warning] [guestinfo] Failed to get nic info.


What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
log says: vmsvc ... [ warning] [guestinfo] Failed to get nic info.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
open-vm-tools, linux

Please provide any additional information below.

it looks like bond is not supported by libdnet

for every 30 secods, i get "[ warning] [guestinfo] Failed to get nic info" in 
logging
after some digging and i found that it's caused by bond0 device, libdnet failed 
to handle the bond device case
(gdb) p ifr
$35 = {ifr_ifrn = {ifrn_name = 
"bond0\000\000\000\020\000\000\000\000\000\000"}, ifr_ifru = {ifru_addr = 
{sa_family = 65534, sa_data = '\000' },
ifru_dstaddr = {sa_family = 65534, sa_data = '\000' }, ifru_broadaddr = 
{sa_family = 65534, sa_data = '\000' }, ifru_netmask = {
sa_family = 65534, sa_data = '\000' }, ifru_hwaddr = {sa_family = 65534, 
sa_data = '\000' }, ifru_flags = -2, ifru_ivalue = 65534,
ifru_mtu = 65534, ifru_map = {mem_start = 65534, mem_end = 0, base_addr = 0, 
irq = 0 '\000', dma = 0 '\000', port = 0 '\000'},
ifru_slave = "\376\377", '\000' , ifru_newname = "\376\377", '\000' , ifru_data 
= 0xfffe
}}
(gdb) p entry[0]
$37 = {intf_len = 8192, intf_name = 
"bond0\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000", intf_type = 6, intf_flags = 
49, intf_mtu = 1500, intf_addr = {addr_type = 2,
addr_bits = 15, addr_u = {eth = {data = "\300\250\b\001\000"}, ip = 17344704, 
ip6 = {data = "\300\250\b\001", '\000' },
data8 = "\300\250\b\001", '\000' , data16 = {43200, 264, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, 
data32 = {17344704, 0, 0, 0}}}, intf_dst_addr = {addr_type = 0,
addr_bits = 0, addr_u = {eth = {data = "\000\000\000\000\000"}, ip = 0, ip6 = 
{data = '\000' }, data8 = '\000' , data16 = {
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, data32 = {0, 0, 0, 0}}}, intf_link_addr = {addr_type = 
0, addr_bits = 0, addr_u = {eth = {data = "\000\000\000\000\000"}, ip = 0,

ip6 = {data = '\000' }, data8 = '\000' , data16 = {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, 
__data32 = {0, 0, 0, 0}}}, intf_alias_num = 0,
intf_alias_addrs = 0x7ffffbd942ac}
(gdb) bt
0 addr_ston (sa=0x7ffffbd94200, a=0x7ffffbd94294) at addr.c:337
1 0x00007fc74edc0c03 in _intf_get_noalias (intf=0x641670, entry=0x7ffffbd94250) 
at intf.c:430
2 0x00007fc74edc15f5 in intf_loop (intf=0x641670, callback=0x7fc74f1f66bf , 
arg=0x63ef30) at intf.c:709
3 0x00007fc74f1f65b7 in GuestInfoGetNicInfo (nicInfo=0x63ef30) at 
guestInfoPosix.c:180
4 0x00007fc74f1f5c84 in GuestInfo_GetNicInfo (nicInfo=0x7ffffbd98368) at 
guestInfo.c:107
5 0x00007fc74f1f31e2 in GuestInfoGather (data=0x60b560 , data@entry=) at 
guestInfoServer.c:305
6 0x00007fc7535c02ab in g_timeout_dispatch (source=source@entry=0x63c300, 
callback=, user_data=)
at /var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/glib-2.38.2-r1/work/glib-2.38.2/glib/gmain.c:4451
7 0x00007fc7535bf496 in g_main_dispatch (context=0x61c320) at 
/var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/glib-2.38.2-r1/work/glib-2.38.2/glib/gmain.c:3066
8 g_main_context_dispatch (context=context@entry=0x61c320) at 
/var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/glib-2.38.2-r1/work/glib-2.38.2/glib/gmain.c:3642
9 0x00007fc7535bf8a8 in g_main_context_iterate (context=0x61c320, 
block=block@entry=1, dispatch=dispatch@entry=1, self=)
at /var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/glib-2.38.2-r1/work/glib-2.38.2/glib/gmain.c:3713
10 0x00007fc7535bfd99 in g_main_loop_run (loop=0x6169d0) at 
/var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/glib-2.38.2-r1/work/glib-2.38.2/glib/gmain.c:3907
11 0x0000000000404caa in ToolsCoreRunLoop (state=0x60b500 ) at mainLoop.c:238
12 0x000000000040516c in ToolsCore_Run (state=0x60b500 ) at mainLoop.c:446
13 0x00000000004057ca in main (argc=1, argv=0x6169b0, envp=0x7ffffbd98778) at 
mainPosix.c:283
(gdb) p sa->sa_family
$38 = 65534
it goes to default case
(gdb) fr
0 addr_ston (sa=0x7ffffbd94200, a=0x7ffffbd94294) at addr.c:337
337 return (-1);
(gdb) l
332 a->addr_bits = IP_ADDR_BITS;
333 a->addr_ip = so->sin.sin_addr.s_addr;
334 break;
335 default:
336 errno = EINVAL;
337 return (-1); <- here
338 }
339 return (0);
340 }
341
returning all the way up to
304 / Get NIC information. /
305 if (!GuestInfo_GetNicInfo(&nicInfo)) {
306 g_warning("Failed to get nic info.\n");
Original issue reported on code.google.com by xue...@gmail.com on 9 May 2014 at 6:08
0x4e38 / libdnet

bond0 cause [ warning] [guestinfo] Failed to get nic info. #31
