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From Andy, provided in the review notes:

I came across this while troubleshooting the allowed-address zone network attribute.
Using a freshly installed exclusive-ip zone with an allowed-address:

bloody# zonecfg -z sparse info net
net:
        address not specified
        allowed-address: 172.16.1.1/24
        defrouter: 172.16.1.254
        physical: sparse0

Before this patch:¶

During first zone boot, dtrace shows:

  7  24847              zone_getattr:return Returning -72887665

and once all services are started, there is no interface in the zone:

root@sparse:~# ipadm show-if
IFNAME     STATE    CURRENT      PERSISTENT
lo0        ok       -m-v------46 ---

It can be created but attempting to bring it online results in an error:

root@sparse:~# ipadm create-if sparse0
root@sparse:~# ipadm disable-if -t sparse0
root@sparse:~# ipadm enable-if -t sparse0
ipadm: Could not enable sparse0 : Invalid argument provided
root@sparse:~# ipadm show-if
IFNAME     STATE    CURRENT      PERSISTENT
lo0        ok       -m-v------46 ---
sparse0    down     bm-------Z46 -46

and, again, dtrace shows the kernel function returning a negative number.

After patch:¶

Immediately following zone install, zone boot:

root@sparse:~# ipadm show-if
IFNAME     STATE    CURRENT      PERSISTENT
lo0        ok       -m-v------46 ---
sparse0    ok       bm-------Z4- -4-
root@sparse:~# ipadm show-addr
ADDROBJ           TYPE     STATE        ADDR
lo0/v4            static   ok           127.0.0.1/8
sparse0/_a        from-gz  ok           172.16.1.1/24
lo0/v6            static   ok           ::1/128