Before the patch: $ ip netns add foo $ ip link add name veth1 address 2a:a5:5c:b9:52:89 type veth peer name veth2 address 2a:a5:5c:b9:53:90 netns foo RTNETLINK answers: No such device RTNETLINK answers: No such device
But the command was successful. This may break script. Let's remove those error messages. Fixes: 55870dfe7f8b ("Improve batch and dump times by caching link lookups") Reported-by: Philippe Guibert <philippe.guib...@6wind.com> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dich...@6wind.com> --- lib/ll_map.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lib/ll_map.c b/lib/ll_map.c index 2d7b65dcb8f7..e0ed54bf77c9 100644 --- a/lib/ll_map.c +++ b/lib/ll_map.c @@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ static int ll_link_get(const char *name, int index) addattr_l(&req.n, sizeof(req), IFLA_IFNAME, name, strlen(name) + 1); - if (rtnl_talk(&rth, &req.n, &answer) < 0) + if (rtnl_talk_suppress_rtnl_errmsg(&rth, &req.n, &answer) < 0) goto out; /* add entry to cache */ -- 2.21.0