From: Michal Schmidt <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 16:48:58 +0200
> IFLA_PHYS_PORT_NAME is a string attribute, so terminate it with \0. > Otherwise libnl3 fails to validate netlink messages with this attribute. > "ip -detail a" assumes too that the attribute is NUL-terminated when > printing it. It often was, due to padding. > > I noticed this as libvirtd failing to start on a system with sfc driver > after upgrading it to Linux 4.11, i.e. when sfc added support for > phys_port_name. > > Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt <[email protected]> Good catch, applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.
