IFLA_PHYS_PORT_NAME is a string attribute, so terminate it with \0.
Otherwise libnl3 fails to validate netlink messages with this attribute.
"ip -detail a" assumes too that the attribute is NUL-terminated when
printing it. It often was, due to padding.
I noticed this as libvirtd failing to start on a system with sfc driver
after upgrading it to Linux 4.11, i.e. when sfc added support for
phys_port_name.
Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt <mschm...@redhat.com>
---
net/core/rtnetlink.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index c4e84c5582..69daf393cb 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -1056,7 +1056,7 @@ static int rtnl_phys_port_name_fill(struct sk_buff *skb,
struct net_device *dev)
return err;
}
- if (nla_put(skb, IFLA_PHYS_PORT_NAME, strlen(name), name))
+ if (nla_put_string(skb, IFLA_PHYS_PORT_NAME, name))
return -EMSGSIZE;
return 0;
--
2.12.2
