netdev - Re: [PATCH] ip: mpls: fix printing of mpls labels

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Date:   Wed, 10 May 2017 12:02:52 +0200
From:   Simon Horman <simon.horman@...ronome.com>
To:     David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
Cc:     stephen@...workplumber.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        roopa@...ulusnetworks.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ip: mpls: fix printing of mpls labels

On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 11:04:13PM -0700, David Ahern wrote:
> If the kernel returns more labels than iproute2 expects, none of
> the labels are printed and (null) is shown instead:
>     $ ip -f mpls ro ls
>     101 as to (null) via inet 172.16.2.2 dev virt12
>     201 as to 202/203 via inet6 2001:db8:2::2 dev virt12
> 
> Remove the use of MPLS_MAX_LABELS and rely on buffer length that is
> passed to mpls_ntop. With this change ip can print the label stack
> returned by the kernel up to 255 characters (limit is due to size of
> buf passed in) which amounts to 31 labels with a separator.
> 
> With this change the above is:
>     $ ip/ip -f mpls ro ls
>     101 as to 102/103/104/105/106/107/108/109/110 via inet 172.16.2.2 dev virt12
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@...ronome.com>