[systemd-devel] Assertion '!ether_addr_is_null(addr)'

[Mirza Krak]

On Fri, 1 Sept 2023 at 08:21, Mirza Krak <mirza.krak at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 31 Aug 2023 at 12:12, Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
> >
> > On Mi, 30.08.23 15:22, Mirza Krak (mirza.krak at gmail.com) wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Environment:
> > > * systemd: 250.5
> >
> > This release is from 2021, i.e. relatively old. The issue you are
> > descriping is almost certainly aleady addressed in newer
> > versions. Consider using a new version. Or contact your OS vendor,
> > asking them to maybe backport the fix in question.
>
> Unfortunately I am the OS vendor (Yocto Project based distribution),
> so it's up to me to solve it :). Would like to avoid updating to a
> newer version at the moment, so the backport does sound like a
> feasible path forward.
>
> Would appreciate any pointers/references to where this issue might
> reside, to help me find the necessary backports.

Should anyone stumble upon this, I backported parts of
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/24174 to resolve this.

/ Mirza