On 12/30/18 10:14 AM, Ido Schimmel wrote:
> Since commit aea41afcfd6d ("ip bridge: Set NETLINK_GET_STRICT_CHK on
> socket") iproute2 uses strict checking on kernels that support it. This
> causes FDB dumping to fail [1], as iproute2 uses 'struct ifinfomsg'
> whereas the kernel expects 'struct ndmsg'.
>
> Note that with this change iproute2 continues to work on old kernels
> that do not support strict checking, but contain the fix introduced in
> kernel commit bd961c9bc664 ("rtnetlink: fix rtnl_fdb_dump() for ndmsg
> header").
>
> [1]
> # bridge fdb show
> [ 5365.137224] netlink: 4 bytes leftover after parsing attributes in process
> `bridge'.
> Error: bytes leftover after parsing attributes.
> Dump terminated
>
> Fixes: aea41afcfd6d ("ip bridge: Set NETLINK_GET_STRICT_CHK on socket")
> Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <ido...@mellanox.com>
> ---
> bridge/fdb.c | 12 ++++++------
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
applied to iproute2-next. Thanks, Ido.
