On 10/5/17 4:19 AM, Nicolas Dichtel wrote: > IFLA_IFALIAS is defined as NLA_STRING. It means that the minimal length of > the attribute is 1 ("\0"). However, to remove an alias, the attribute > length must be 0 (see dev_set_alias()).
why not add a check in dev_set_alias that if len is 1 and the 1 character is '\0' it means remove the alias? > > Let's define the type to NLA_BINARY, so that the alias can be removed. that changes the uapi