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LIN1018-5706 : libnl: issue with bridge handling

Created: Feb 10, 2020 Updated: Mar 23, 2020

Resolved Date: Feb 26, 2020

Found In Version: 10.18.44.13

Fix Version: 10.18.44.15

Severity: Standard

Applicable for: Wind River Linux LTS 18

Component/s: Userspace

Description

In WRL18 RCPL7 we can see that link change requests to libnl fails due to "Operation not supported" error when the link is a bridge.

This has already been reported and fixed upstream.

[http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/libnl/2017-November/002385.html]
 [https://github.com/thom311/libnl/commit/3c427d0f4fcca91a661d85d21cdea89d41271c6c]

With patch applied the test program works fine.

Steps to Reproduce

Build attached test program and run it.

root@du1:~# ./libnl_test testbridge
Failed to set link addr name: testbridge mac: 00:22:33:44:55:66 retval: -10(Operation not supported)