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| author |   Pali Rohár <pali@kernel.org> | 2021-08-07 15:27:03 +0200 |
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| committer |   David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2021-08-08 13:07:52 +0100 |
| commit | 2459dcb96bcba94c08d6861f8a050185ff301672 (patch) | |
| tree | 8bea657d5d8a440e369dea7ad0b72d68c615dd22 | |
| parent | Merge branch 'bnxt_en-ptp-fixes' (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-2459dcb96bcba94c08d6861f8a050185ff301672.tar.xz linux-dev-2459dcb96bcba94c08d6861f8a050185ff301672.zip | |
ppp: Fix generating ifname when empty IFLA_IFNAME is specified
IFLA_IFNAME is nul-term string which means that IFLA_IFNAME buffer can be
larger than length of string which contains.
Function __rtnl_newlink() generates new own ifname if either IFLA_IFNAME
was not specified at all or userspace passed empty nul-term string.
It is expected that if userspace does not specify ifname for new ppp netdev
then kernel generates one in format "ppp<id>" where id matches to the ppp
unit id which can be later obtained by PPPIOCGUNIT ioctl.
And it works in this way if IFLA_IFNAME is not specified at all. But it
does not work when IFLA_IFNAME is specified with empty string.
So fix this logic also for empty IFLA_IFNAME in ppp_nl_newlink() function
and correctly generates ifname based on ppp unit identifier if userspace
did not provided preferred ifname.
Without this patch when IFLA_IFNAME was specified with empty string then
kernel created a new ppp interface in format "ppp<id>" but id did not
match ppp unit id returned by PPPIOCGUNIT ioctl. In this case id was some
number generated by __rtnl_newlink() function.
Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali@kernel.org>
Fixes: bb8082f69138 ("ppp: build ifname using unit identifier for rtnl based devices")
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c b/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c index 930e49ef15f6..b2b35ec37702 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c +++ b/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c @@ -1306,7 +1306,7 @@ static int ppp_nl_newlink(struct net *src_net, struct net_device *dev, * the PPP unit identifer as suffix (i.e. ppp<unit_id>). This allows * userspace to infer the device name using to the PPPIOCGUNIT ioctl. */ - if (!tb[IFLA_IFNAME]) + if (!tb[IFLA_IFNAME] || !nla_len(tb[IFLA_IFNAME]) || !*(char *)nla_data(tb[IFLA_IFNAME])) conf.ifname_is_set = false; err = ppp_dev_configure(src_net, dev, &conf); |