From 805edda6b9a6642009a7f7e3b6de2b03006711e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: black <invalid>
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2018 13:38:53 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix infinite loop when run in a network namespace with
 NetworkManager outside the namespace

---
 create_ap | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/create_ap b/create_ap
index 8fa6671..0994f31 100755
--- a/create_ap
+++ b/create_ap
@@ -464,8 +464,15 @@ networkmanager_is_running() {
     [[ -n "$NMCLI_OUT" ]]
 }
 
+networkmanager_knows_iface() {
+    # check if the interface $1 is known to NetworkManager
+    # an interface may exist but may not be known to NetworkManager if it is in a different network namespace than NetworkManager
+    nmcli -t -f DEVICE d 2>&1 | grep -Fxq "$1"
+}
+
 networkmanager_iface_is_unmanaged() {
     is_interface "$1" || return 2
+    networkmanager_knows_iface "$1" || return 0
     (nmcli -t -f DEVICE,STATE d 2>&1 | grep -E "^$1:unmanaged$" > /dev/null 2>&1) || return 1
 }