netdev - Re: [BUG][iproute2][5.0] ip route show table default: "Error: ipv4: FIB table does not exist."

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Message-ID: <LakduwN--3-1@tutanota.com>
Date:   Sun, 24 Mar 2019 18:02:54 +0100 (CET)
From:   <emersonbernier@...anota.com>
To:     David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
Cc:     Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Stephen <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
        Kuznet <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>, Jason <jason@...c4.com>,
        Davem <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [BUG][iproute2][5.0] ip route show table default: "Error: ipv4:
 FIB table does not exist."

Mar 24, 2019, 2:17 PM by dsahern@...il.com:

> On 3/23/19 7:00 AM, > emersonbernier@...anota.com <mailto:emersonbernier@...anota.com>>  wrote:
>
>> After upgrading iproute2 from 4.20 to 5.0 the following error occurs:
>>
>> $ ip route show table default
>> Error: ipv4: FIB table does not exist.
>> Dump terminated
>>
>> The command works for all tables other than 'default' one. It seems related to this commit[1]
>>
>
>
> 'default' maps to table 253, and the table has not been created in the
> kernel. Local (255) and main (254) do exist.
>
Ok but previous versions of iproute2 didn't treat this as error and didn't exited with non-zero status. Is non existing default route a system error which needs fixing?