* [PATCH iproute2-next] routel: handle errors from ip command
@ 2026-05-17 22:44 Stephen Hemminger
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From: Stephen Hemminger @ 2026-05-17 22:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: netdev; +Cc: Stephen Hemminger, Christian Iacobellis
When ip exits non-zero, routel crashed with a JSONDecodeError traceback
on top of ip's own diagnostic. Use subprocess.run with check=True,
propagate ip's exit status, handle a missing ip binary, and wrap the
JSON parse so malformed output gives a clean message.
While here, send diagnostics to stderr and drop the assert-as-control-
flow (stripped under python -O).
Fixes: 6d676ad93408 ("ip: rewrite routel in python")
Reported-by: Christian Iacobellis <Ciacobellis@agea.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
---
ip/routel | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ip/routel b/ip/routel
index 09a90126..51b02d21 100755
--- a/ip/routel
+++ b/ip/routel
@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ import subprocess
def usage():
'''Print usage and exit'''
- print("Usage: {} [tablenr [raw ip args...]]".format(sys.argv[0]))
+ print("Usage: {} [tablenr [raw ip args...]]".format(sys.argv[0]),
+ file=sys.stderr)
sys.exit(64)
@@ -23,7 +24,7 @@ def main():
try:
opts, args = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], "h46f:", ["help", "family="])
except getopt.GetoptError as err:
- print(err)
+ print(err, file=sys.stderr)
usage()
for opt, arg in opts:
@@ -36,14 +37,29 @@ def main():
elif opt in ["-f", "--family"]:
family = arg
else:
- assert False, "unhandled option"
+ raise RuntimeError("unhandled option " + opt)
if not args:
args = ['0']
cmd = ['ip', '-f', family, '-j', 'route', 'list', 'table'] + args
- process = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
- tbl = json.load(process.stdout)
+ try:
+ result = subprocess.run(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, check=True)
+ except FileNotFoundError:
+ print("{}: ip: command not found".format(sys.argv[0]),
+ file=sys.stderr)
+ sys.exit(1)
+ except subprocess.CalledProcessError as err:
+ # ip has already written its own diagnostic to stderr
+ sys.exit(err.returncode)
+
+ try:
+ tbl = json.loads(result.stdout)
+ except json.JSONDecodeError as err:
+ print("{}: cannot parse ip output: {}".format(sys.argv[0], err),
+ file=sys.stderr)
+ sys.exit(1)
+
if family == 'inet':
fmt = '{:15} {:15} {:15} {:8} {:8}{:<16} {}'
else:
@@ -54,7 +70,7 @@ def main():
print(fmt.format(*map(lambda x: x.capitalize(), keys)))
for record in tbl:
- fields = [record[k] if k in record else '' for k in keys]
+ fields = [record.get(k, '') for k in keys]
print(fmt.format(*fields))
--
2.53.0
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