On 1/30/18 11:09 AM, Serhey Popovych wrote: > Be consistent in handling of IFLA_IFNAME attribute in all places: if > there is no attribute report bug to stderr and use ll_index_to_name() as > last measure to get name in "if%d" format instead of "<nil>". > > Use check_ifname() to validate network device name: this catches both > unexpected return from kernel and ll_index_to_name().
same comment as patch 1. IFLA_IFNAME is always sent by the kernel and doing a lookup in a cache is wrong.
