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-rw-r--r--lib/route/link.c18
-rw-r--r--lib/utils.c2
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/route/link.c b/lib/route/link.c
index 7a53532..0b3238f 100644
--- a/lib/route/link.c
+++ b/lib/route/link.c
@@ -1160,6 +1160,11 @@ nla_put_failure:
* pointer or -NLE_OBJ_NOTFOUND is returned if no matching link was
* found.
*
+ * Older kernels do not support lookup by name. In that case, libnl
+ * will fail with -NLE_OPNOTSUPP. Note that previous version of libnl
+ * failed in this case with -NLE_INVAL. You can check libnl behavior
+ * using NL_CAPABILITY_ROUTE_LINK_GET_KERNEL_FAIL_OPNOTSUPP capability.
+ *
* @route_doc{link_direct_lookup, Lookup Single Link (Direct Lookup)}
* @return 0 on success or a negative error code.
*/
@@ -1169,6 +1174,7 @@ int rtnl_link_get_kernel(struct nl_sock *sk, int ifindex, const char *name,
struct nl_msg *msg = NULL;
struct nl_object *obj;
int err;
+ int syserr;
if ((err = rtnl_link_build_get_request(ifindex, name, &msg)) < 0)
return err;
@@ -1178,8 +1184,18 @@ int rtnl_link_get_kernel(struct nl_sock *sk, int ifindex, const char *name,
if (err < 0)
return err;
- if ((err = nl_pickup(sk, link_msg_parser, &obj)) < 0)
+ if ((err = nl_pickup_keep_syserr(sk, link_msg_parser, &obj, &syserr)) < 0) {
+ if (syserr == -EINVAL &&
+ ifindex <= 0 &&
+ name && *name) {
+ /* Older kernels do not support lookup by ifname. This was added
+ * by commit kernel a3d1289126e7b14307074b76bf1677015ea5036f .
+ * Detect this error case and return NLE_OPNOTSUPP instead of
+ * NLE_INVAL. */
+ return -NLE_OPNOTSUPP;
+ }
return err;
+ }
/* We have used link_msg_parser(), object is definitely a link */
*result = (struct rtnl_link *) obj;
diff --git a/lib/utils.c b/lib/utils.c
index 67612bd..795eeb7 100644
--- a/lib/utils.c
+++ b/lib/utils.c
@@ -1148,7 +1148,7 @@ int nl_has_capability (int capability)
NL_CAPABILITY_ROUTE_LINK_VETH_GET_PEER_OWN_REFERENCE,
NL_CAPABILITY_ROUTE_LINK_CLS_ADD_ACT_OWN_REFERENCE,
NL_CAPABILITY_NL_CONNECT_RETRY_GENERATE_PORT_ON_ADDRINUSE,
- 0,
+ NL_CAPABILITY_ROUTE_LINK_GET_KERNEL_FAIL_OPNOTSUPP,
0,
0,
0),