Le 20/11/2018 à 16:46, David Ahern a écrit : > On 11/20/18 2:05 AM, Nicolas Dichtel wrote: >> Le 20/11/2018 à 00:46, David Ahern a écrit : [snip] >>> Seems like alloc_netid() should error out if reqid < -1 (-1 being the >>> NETNSA_NSID_NOT_ASSIGNED flag) as opposed to blindly ignoring it. >> alloc_netid() tries to allocate the specified nsid if this nsid is valid, ie >> >= >> 0, else it allocates a new nsid (actually the lower available). >> This is the expected behavior. >> >> For me, it's more an iproute2 problem, which parses an unsigned and silently >> cast it to a signed value. > > so your intention is that any < 0 value means auto generate not just -1. Yes. If a valid value is not provided, the kernel tries to allocate one.
Nicolas
