Thomas reported a change in behavior with respect to autodectecting
address families. Specifically, 'ip ro add default via fe80::1'
syntax was failing to treat fe80::1 as an IPv6 address as it did in
prior releases. The root causes appears to be a change in family when
the default keyword is parsed.
'default', 'any' and 'all' are relevant outside of AF_INET. Leave the
family arg as is for these when setting addr.
Fixes: 93fa12418dc6 ("utils: Always specify family and ->bytelen in get_prefix_1()")
Reported-by: Thomas Deutschmann <whissi@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Serhey Popovych <serhe.popovych@gmail.com>
if (strcmp(name, "default") == 0) {
if ((family == AF_DECnet) || (family == AF_MPLS))
return -1;
- addr->family = (family != AF_UNSPEC) ? family : AF_INET;
+ addr->family = family;
addr->bytelen = af_byte_len(addr->family);
addr->bitlen = -2;
addr->flags |= PREFIXLEN_SPECIFIED;
strcmp(name, "any") == 0) {
if ((family == AF_DECnet) || (family == AF_MPLS))
return -1;
- addr->family = AF_UNSPEC;
+ addr->family = family;
addr->bytelen = 0;
addr->bitlen = -2;
return 0;