netdev - [PATCH 1/3] dev: Prevent creating network devices with negative ifindex

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Date:   Fri, 16 Jun 2017 17:23:51 +0300
From:   Serhey Popovych <serhe.popovych@...il.com>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] dev: Prevent creating network devices with negative ifindex

Interface index is signed integer, we can pass ifm->ifi_index
from userspace via netlink and create network device with
negative ifindex value.

Fixes: 9c7dafbfab15 ("net: Allow to create links with given ifindex")
Signed-off-by: Serhey Popovych <serhe.popovych@...il.com>
---
 net/core/dev.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 8658074..dae8010 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -7491,7 +7491,7 @@ int register_netdevice(struct net_device *dev)
 	}
 
 	ret = -EBUSY;
-	if (!dev->ifindex)
+	if (dev->ifindex <= 0)
 		dev->ifindex = dev_new_index(net);
 	else if (__dev_get_by_index(net, dev->ifindex))
 		goto err_uninit;
-- 
1.8.3.1