Re: [Bridge] [PATCH iproute2-next 2/2] bridge: fdb: enable FDB blackhole feature

From: Stephen Hemminger
Date: Thu Sep 29 2022 - 11:44:53 EST


On Thu, 29 Sep 2022 17:21:37 +0200
Hans Schultz <netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> @@ -493,6 +496,8 @@ static int fdb_modify(int cmd, int flags, int argc, char **argv)
> req.ndm.ndm_flags |= NTF_EXT_LEARNED;
> } else if (matches(*argv, "sticky") == 0) {
> req.ndm.ndm_flags |= NTF_STICKY;
> + } else if (matches(*argv, "blackhole") == 0) {
> + ext_flags |= NTF_EXT_BLACKHOLE;
> } else {
> if (strcmp(*argv, "to") == 0)
> NEXT_ARG();

The parsing of flags is weird here, most of the flags are compared with strcmp()
but some use matches().. I should have used strcmp() all the time; but at the
time did not realize what kind of confusion matches() can cause.