From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dich...@6wind.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 16:24:48 +0200
> 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()).
>
> Let's define the type to NLA_BINARY to allow 0-length string, so that the
> alias can be removed.
>
> Example:
> $ ip l s dummy0 alias foo
> $ ip l l dev dummy0
> 5: dummy0: <BROADCAST,NOARP> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN mode DEFAULT
> group default qlen 1000
> link/ether ae:20:30:4f:a7:f3 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> alias foo
>
> Before the patch:
> $ ip l s dummy0 alias ""
> RTNETLINK answers: Numerical result out of range
>
> After the patch:
> $ ip l s dummy0 alias ""
> $ ip l l dev dummy0
> 5: dummy0: <BROADCAST,NOARP> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN mode DEFAULT
> group default qlen 1000
> link/ether ae:20:30:4f:a7:f3 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
>
> CC: Oliver Hartkopp <oli...@hartkopp.net>
> CC: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org>
> Fixes: 96ca4a2cc145 ("net: remove ifalias on empty given alias")
> Reported-by: Julien FLoret <julien.flo...@6wind.com>
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dich...@6wind.com>
Applied, thank you.
