Print an error message and discard the object instead of returning it to the caller. At least when trying to print it, we would hit an assert() in obj_type_name() anyway. Fixes: 4756d92e517ae ("src: listing of stateful objects") Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@xxxxxx> --- src/netlink.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/netlink.c b/src/netlink.c index 0724190a25d6f..52010c74d4f30 100644 --- a/src/netlink.c +++ b/src/netlink.c @@ -1802,6 +1802,10 @@ struct obj *netlink_delinearize_obj(struct netlink_ctx *ctx, obj->synproxy.flags = nftnl_obj_get_u32(nlo, NFTNL_OBJ_SYNPROXY_FLAGS); break; + default: + netlink_io_error(ctx, NULL, "Unknown object type %u", type); + obj_free(obj); + return NULL; } obj->type = type; -- 2.49.0