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Date:	Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:03:20 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	Andreas Henriksson <andreas@...al.se>
Cc:	stephen.hemminger@...tta.com,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	489340@...s.debian.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: iproute2: no error message when link up command fails.

On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:58 +0200
Andreas Henriksson <andreas@...al.se> wrote:

> Hi Stephen and co.!
> 
> Johannes Berg reported that iproute2 doesn't give any error message when
> "ip link set ... up" failed for him (as opposed to ifconfig):
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=489340
> 
> The ways he suggested didn't work for me to reproduce, but I found out
> simply using the wmaster0 device works as a testcase.
> (You'll need a wireless device, probably with a driver based on the new
> mac80211 stack).
> 
> I've debugged this into a place in the bundled rtnetlink library where
> if there's a netlink error - it is ignored if there's no errno, which
> seems weird. I don't really understand the code, but this "proof of
> concept" patch makes "ip link set dev wmaster0 up" spit out an error
> message atleast. Could you please have a look at what's going on here?
> 
> 
> diff --git a/lib/libnetlink.c b/lib/libnetlink.c
> index 5ae64f7..afa58fb 100644
> --- a/lib/libnetlink.c
> +++ b/lib/libnetlink.c
> @@ -351,6 +351,7 @@ int rtnl_talk(struct rtnl_handle *rtnl, struct nlmsghdr *n, pid_t peer,
>  					if (errno == 0) {
>  						if (answer)
>  							memcpy(answer, h, h->nlmsg_len);
> +						fprintf(stderr, "Unknown netlink error.\n");
>  						return 0;
>  					}
>  					perror("RTNETLINK answers");
> 
> 
> 
> For the record, here's what ifconfig says:
> 
> $ sudo ifconfig wmaster0 up
> SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not supported

libnetlink shouldn't print the error, it needs to be done by the caller.
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