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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: "Andrey Jr. Melnikov" <temnota.am@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iproute: disallow ip rule del without parameters
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 10:53:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160829105325.40230e41@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160824204252.2melotzdx6ftzgaq@ppc.Dlink>

On Wed, 24 Aug 2016 23:43:00 +0300
"Andrey Jr. Melnikov" <temnota.am@gmail.com> wrote:

> Disallow run `ip rule del` without any parameter to avoid delete any first
> rule from table.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Jr. Melnikov <temnota.am@gmail.com>
> ---
> 
> diff --git a/ip/iprule.c b/ip/iprule.c
> index 8f24206..70562c5 100644
> --- a/ip/iprule.c
> +++ b/ip/iprule.c
> @@ -346,6 +346,11 @@ static int iprule_modify(int cmd, int argc, char **argv)
>  		req.r.rtm_type = RTN_UNICAST;
>  	}
>  
> +	if (cmd == RTM_DELRULE && argc == 0) {
> +		fprintf(stderr, "\"ip rule del\" requires arguments.\n");
> +		return -1;
> +	}
> +
>  	while (argc > 0) {
>  		if (strcmp(*argv, "not") == 0) {
>  			req.r.rtm_flags |= FIB_RULE_INVERT;


Actually ip rule delete without arguments deletes all rules.
Which could be a bug or feature depending on the user.
I can imagine somebody is doing something like deleting all rules
and putting in new ones for PBR.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-29 17:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-24 20:43 [PATCH] iproute: disallow ip rule del without parameters Andrey Jr. Melnikov
2016-08-29 17:53 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2016-08-30 11:51   ` Michal Kubecek
2016-09-01 16:05     ` Stephen Hemminger

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