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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Initialize arguments to iplink_parse() by default
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 08:27:07 -0800
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> Be consistent when dealing with arguments passed
> to iplink_parse() by initializing to default values.
> 
> This fixes crash when ip-link(8) invoced with command:
> 
>   ip link add dev veth1a type veth peer
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sergey Popovich <popovich_sergei@mail.ru>

Rather than modifying iplink_parse, I just fixed in veth code where the bug
was being caused.