Thanks Chris for having a look.
> On the other hand, from the bug it looks like if you *don't* mix valid and
> invalid labels
> then everything actually works? So this would potentially be breaking
> currently working setups?
Yes while having that echoing in my head for a while I think you are
Hm. It's not clear what the actual user impact of this is?
Reading from the original description, it seems that if a user uses an
invalid label to set one address and *also* uses a valid label to set
another address *then* tools can be confused?
“Our parser is actually more lenient than the
Reviewed and tested - uploading to Bionic-unapproved for a check by the
SRU Team.
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Not sure if it will pass build, review or be acceptable as SRU since it is so
low impact.
But the fix was so trivial that after all this time I'd feel bad to keep it
as-is.
So I've prepared an MP to fix it
https://code.launchpad.net/~paelzer/ubuntu/+source/iproute2/+git/iproute2/+merge/409821
** Merge proposal linked:
https://code.launchpad.net/~paelzer/ubuntu/+source/iproute2/+git/iproute2/+merge/409821
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Hi,
I come by trying to clear out a few old bugs that might still need to be
resolved (or can be closed by now).
Even though this one seems to be forgotten by everyone so far it has
been fixed.
Bionic (affected)
root@b:~# ip addr add 1.1.1.1 label test1 dev eth0
"dev" (eth0) must match "label"
** Changed in: iproute2 (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Triaged
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