From: David Ahern <dsah...@gmail.com> Make IPv4 consistent with IPv6 and return an extack message that the ONLINK flag requires a nexthop device.
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsah...@gmail.com> --- net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c b/net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c index f3c89ccf14c5..bee8db979195 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c +++ b/net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c @@ -797,8 +797,10 @@ static int fib_check_nh(struct fib_config *cfg, struct fib_nh *nh, return -EINVAL; } dev = __dev_get_by_index(net, nh->nh_oif); - if (!dev) + if (!dev) { + NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack, "Nexthop device required for onlink"); return -ENODEV; + } if (!(dev->flags & IFF_UP)) { NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack, "Nexthop device is not up"); -- 2.11.0