From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Date: Wed, 29 May 2019 14:42:10 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: iplink: don't try to get ll addr len when creating an iface
X-Git-Tag: v5.2.0~29
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c442234858a6bf3ee954f5e482dac9486ece5f17;p=thirdparty%2Fiproute2.git

iplink: don't try to get ll addr len when creating an iface

It will obviously fail. This is a follow up of the
commit 757837230a65 ("lib: suppress error msg when filling the cache").

Suggested-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
---

diff --git a/ip/iplink.c b/ip/iplink.c
index 7952cb2be..d275efa9d 100644
--- a/ip/iplink.c
+++ b/ip/iplink.c
@@ -945,7 +945,8 @@ int iplink_parse(int argc, char **argv, struct iplink_req *req, char **type)
 	else if (!strcmp(name, dev))
 		name = dev;
 
-	if (dev && addr_len) {
+	if (dev && addr_len &&
+	    !(req->n.nlmsg_flags & NLM_F_CREATE)) {
 		int halen = nl_get_ll_addr_len(dev);
 
 		if (halen >= 0 && halen != addr_len) {