From: Pali Rohár pali@kernel.org
[ Upstream commit 2459dcb96bcba94c08d6861f8a050185ff301672 ]
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 Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c b/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c index f7a13529e4ad..33b2e0fb68bb 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c +++ b/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c @@ -1207,7 +1207,7 @@ 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);