From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 11:42:00 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: sd-netlink: permit RTM_DELLINK messages with no ifindex
X-Git-Tag: v230~96^2~1
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fa647aa978a1fb6408798e365617529c2b7e53c7;p=thirdparty%2Fsystemd.git

sd-netlink: permit RTM_DELLINK messages with no ifindex

This is useful for removing network interfaces by name.
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diff --git a/src/libsystemd/sd-netlink/rtnl-message.c b/src/libsystemd/sd-netlink/rtnl-message.c
index 255526bf32d..f251536a891 100644
--- a/src/libsystemd/sd-netlink/rtnl-message.c
+++ b/src/libsystemd/sd-netlink/rtnl-message.c
@@ -402,7 +402,6 @@ int sd_rtnl_message_new_link(sd_netlink *rtnl, sd_netlink_message **ret,
         int r;
 
         assert_return(rtnl_message_type_is_link(nlmsg_type), -EINVAL);
-        assert_return(nlmsg_type != RTM_DELLINK || index > 0, -EINVAL);
         assert_return(ret, -EINVAL);
 
         r = message_new(rtnl, ret, nlmsg_type);