To fix ios_l3_interfaces resource module round trip failure backport for PR 61642 (#62399)

* To fix ios_l3_interfaces resource module round trip failure (#61642)

* fix 61396

Signed-off-by: Sumit Jaiswal <sjaiswal@redhat.com>

* add ios_l3_interfaces rtt tests

* remove unnecessary config

Signed-off-by: Sumit Jaiswal <sjaiswal@redhat.com>

* change test description

Signed-off-by: Sumit Jaiswal <sjaiswal@redhat.com>

* remove rtt and move to new PR

(cherry picked from commit f9fd1f3626)

* fix changelog

changelogs/fragments/61642-fix-ios-l3-interfaces-rtt-failure.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+---
+bugfixes:
+- "To fix ios_l3_interfaces resource module round trip failure(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/61642)"

lib/ansible/module_utils/network/ios/utils/utils.py

@@ -138,6 +138,8 @@ def validate_ipv6(value, module):
 def validate_n_expand_ipv4(module, want):
     # Check if input IPV4 is valid IP and expand IPV4 with its subnet mask
     ip_addr_want = want.get('address')
+    if len(ip_addr_want.split(' ')) > 1:
+        return ip_addr_want
     validate_ipv4(ip_addr_want, module)
     ip = ip_addr_want.split('/')
     if len(ip) == 2: