Hi all, On Fri, 2025-12-19 at 10:19 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > On 12/18/25 20:50, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > > > > Is there soemthing missing? > > > > Roland I think it would be helpful if you can test as well more recent > > stable series versions to confirm if the issue is present there as > > well or not, which might indicate a 5.10.y specific backporting > > problem. > > FWIW, it (as usual) would be very important to know if this happens with > mainline as well, as that determines if it's a general problem or a > backporting problem [...]
The bug is this: - libvirtd wrongly used to use NLM_F_CREATE (0x400) and NLM_F_EXCL (0x200) flags on an RTM_DELLINK operation. These flags are only semantically valid for NEW-type operations. - rtnetlink is rather lax about checking the flags on operations, so these unsupported flags had no effect. - rtnetlink can now support NLM_F_BULK (0x200) on some DEL-type operations. If the flag is used but is not valid for the specific operation then the operation now fails with EOPNOTSUPP. Since NLM_F_EXCL == NLM_F_BULK and RTM_DELLINK does not support bulk operations, libvirtd now hits this error case. I have not tested with mainline, but in principle the same issue should occur with any other kernel version that has commit a6cec0bcd342 "net: rtnetlink: add bulk delete support flag" together with an older version of libvirt. This was fixed in libvirt commit 1334002340b, which appears to have gone into version 7.1.0, but Debian 11 "bullseye" has 7.0.0. We can certainly fix the libvirt side of this in Debian, but this also sounds like a case where the kernel should work around known buggy user- space. On the other hand, this has been upstream for over 3 years so maybe it doesn't make sense now. Please let me know whether I (or anyone) should try to implement a workaround for this in the kernel. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings - Debian developer, member of kernel, installer and LTS teams
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