[libvirt] [PATCH 3/5] ip link needs 'name' in 3.16 to create the veth pair

[Cedric Bosdonnat]

On Tue, 2014-11-25 at 08:42 +0100, Martin Kletzander wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 09:54:44PM +0100, Cédric Bosdonnat wrote:
> >Due to a change (or bug?) in ip link implementation, the command
> >    'ip link add vnet0...'
> >is forced into
> >    'ip link add name vnet0...'
> >The changed command also works on older versions of iproute2, just the
> >'name' parameter has been made mandatory.
> >---
> > src/util/virnetdevveth.c | 4 ++--
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> >diff --git a/src/util/virnetdevveth.c b/src/util/virnetdevveth.c
> >index e9d6f9c..ad30e1d 100644
> >--- a/src/util/virnetdevveth.c
> >+++ b/src/util/virnetdevveth.c
> >@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ static int virNetDevVethGetFreeNum(int startDev)
> >  * @veth2: pointer to return name for container end of veth pair
> >  *
> >  * Creates a veth device pair using the ip command:
> >- * ip link add veth1 type veth peer name veth2
> >+ * ip link add name veth1 type veth peer name veth2
> >  * If veth1 points to NULL on entry, it will be a valid interface on
> >  * return.  veth2 should point to NULL on entry.
> >  *
> >@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ int virNetDevVethCreate(char** veth1, char** veth2)
> >         }
> >
> >         cmd = virCommandNew("ip");
> >-        virCommandAddArgList(cmd, "link", "add",
> >+        virCommandAddArgList(cmd, "link", "add", "name",
> >                              *veth1 ? *veth1 : veth1auto,
> >                              "type", "veth", "peer", "name",
> >                              *veth2 ? *veth2 : veth2auto,
> >--
> >2.1.2
> >
> 
> I agree, the 'name' was always there, just optional.  But what version
> of iproute2 do you have that requires it?  I checked the current HEAD
> and it's still optional.  This must be a bug in that particular
> implementation.
> 
> ACK if you can argue with the version or platform this is required
> on.

At least the 3.16 shipped on openSUSE 13.2 has that problem... though I
think it's just a side effect of another change in iproute2. It worked
fine with version 3.12.

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Cedric