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Message-ID: <CANn89iJdhqOtvoGsquYbicThdUGFEzLFmKR5v7wXryKz6Rw3=Q@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2023 21:42:10 +0200
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Cc: "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@...il.com,
syzbot <syzkaller@...glegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] tun: prevent negative ifindex
On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 9:33 PM Stephen Hemminger
<stephen@...workplumber.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 16 Oct 2023 18:08:51 +0000
> Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> > + ret = -EINVAL;
> > + if (ifindex < 0)
> > + goto unlock;
>
> Shouldn't this be <= 0 since 0 is not a valid ifindex.
> Zero ifindex is used as a sentinel in some API's
>
> For example: if_nametoindex() returns 0 if name is not found.
Setting tfile->ifindex to zero should be a NOP ?
This means dev_index_reserve() will allocate a ifindex for us.
Not sure we want to prevent something that was working properly in the past.
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