Re: [PATCH iproute2 1/2] Revert "ip6tunnel: fix 'ip -6 {show|change} dev <name>' cmds"

[Andrea Claudi <aclaudi@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 7:31 PM Mahesh Bandewar (महेश बंडेवार)
<maheshb@google.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 6:16 AM Andrea Claudi <aclaudi@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > This reverts commit ba126dcad20e6d0e472586541d78bdd1ac4f1123.
> > It breaks tunnel creation when using 'dev' parameter:
> >
> > $ ip link add type dummy
> > $ ip -6 tunnel add ip6tnl1 mode ip6ip6 remote 2001:db8:ffff:100::2 local 2001:db8:ffff:100::1 hoplimit 1 tclass 0x0 dev dummy0
> > add tunnel "ip6tnl0" failed: File exists
> >
> > dev parameter must be used to specify the device to which
> > the tunnel is binded, and not the tunnel itself.
> >
> > Reported-by: Jianwen Ji <jiji@redhat.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Matteo Croce <mcroce@redhat.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Andrea Claudi <aclaudi@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  ip/ip6tunnel.c | 2 --
> >  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/ip/ip6tunnel.c b/ip/ip6tunnel.c
> > index 56fd3466ed062..999408ed801b1 100644
> > --- a/ip/ip6tunnel.c
> > +++ b/ip/ip6tunnel.c
> > @@ -298,8 +298,6 @@ static int parse_args(int argc, char **argv, int cmd, struct ip6_tnl_parm2 *p)
> >                 p->link = ll_name_to_index(medium);
> >                 if (!p->link)
> >                         return nodev(medium);
> > -               else
> > -                       strlcpy(p->name, medium, sizeof(p->name));
> NACK
>
> I see that ba126dcad20e6d0e472586541d78bdd1ac4f1123 has broke
> something but that doesn't mean revert of the original fix is correct
> way of fixing it. The original fix is fixing the show and change
> command. Shouldn't you try fixing the add command so that all (show,
> change, and add) work correctly?
>

Hi Mahesh,
Thanks for sharing your opinion. I think I already answered this
replying to your review of patch 2/2 of this series.
To summarize that up I think there is a misunderstanding on the
meaning of "dev" param, and "name" param (which is the default) must
be used instead in the cases highlighted in your commit.

Regards,
Andrea

> >         }
> >         return 0;
> >  }
> > --
> > 2.20.1
> >