We started to use in-kernel filtering feature which allows to get only
needed tables (see iproute_dump_filter()). From the kernel side it's
implemented in net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c (inet_dump_fib), net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c
(inet6_dump_fib). The problem here is that behaviour of "ip route save"
was changed after
c7e6371bc ("ip route: Add protocol, table id and device to dump request").
If filters are used, then kernel returns ENOENT error if requested table
is absent, but in newly created net namespace even RT_TABLE_MAIN table
doesn't exist. It is really allocated, for instance, after issuing
"ip l set lo up".
Reproducer is fairly simple:
$ unshare -n ip route save > dump
Error: ipv4: FIB table does not exist.
Dump terminated
Expected result here is to get empty dump file (as it was before this
change).
v2: reworked, so, now it takes into account NLMSGERR_ATTR_MSG
(see nl_dump_ext_ack_done() function). We want to suppress error messages
in stderr about absent FIB table from kernel too.
v3: reworked to make code clearer. Introduced rtnl_suppressed_errors(),
rtnl_suppress_error() helpers. User may suppress up to 3 errors (may be
easily extended by changing SUPPRESS_ERRORS_INIT macro).
v4: reworked, rtnl_dump_filter_errhndlr() was introduced. Thanks
to Stephen Hemminger for comments and suggestions
v5: space fixes, commit message reformat, empty initializers
Fixes: c7e6371bc ("ip route: Add protocol, table id and device to dump request")
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <alexander@mihalicyn.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <alexander.mikhalitsyn@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>