linux/net
Andrey Ignatov 96a6b93b69 rtnetlink: Return correct error on changing device netns
Currently when device is moved between network namespaces using
RTM_NEWLINK message type and one of netns attributes (FLA_NET_NS_PID,
IFLA_NET_NS_FD, IFLA_TARGET_NETNSID) but w/o specifying IFLA_IFNAME, and
target namespace already has device with same name, userspace will get
EINVAL what is confusing and makes debugging harder.

Fix it so that userspace gets more appropriate EEXIST instead what makes
debugging much easier.

Before:

  # ./ifname.sh
  + ip netns add ns0
  + ip netns exec ns0 ip link add l0 type dummy
  + ip netns exec ns0 ip link show l0
  8: l0: <BROADCAST,NOARP> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
      link/ether 66:90:b5:d5:78:69 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
  + ip link add l0 type dummy
  + ip link show l0
  10: l0: <BROADCAST,NOARP> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
      link/ether 6e:c6:1f:15:20:8d brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
  + ip link set l0 netns ns0
  RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument

After:

  # ./ifname.sh
  + ip netns add ns0
  + ip netns exec ns0 ip link add l0 type dummy
  + ip netns exec ns0 ip link show l0
  8: l0: <BROADCAST,NOARP> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
      link/ether 1e:4a:72:e3:e3:8f brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
  + ip link add l0 type dummy
  + ip link show l0
  10: l0: <BROADCAST,NOARP> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
      link/ether f2:fc:fe:2b:7d:a6 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
  + ip link set l0 netns ns0
  RTNETLINK answers: File exists

The problem is that do_setlink() passes its `char *ifname` argument,
that it gets from a caller, to __dev_change_net_namespace() as is (as
`const char *pat`), but semantics of ifname and pat can be different.

For example, __rtnl_newlink() does this:

net/core/rtnetlink.c
    3270	char ifname[IFNAMSIZ];
     ...
    3286	if (tb[IFLA_IFNAME])
    3287		nla_strscpy(ifname, tb[IFLA_IFNAME], IFNAMSIZ);
    3288	else
    3289		ifname[0] = '\0';
     ...
    3364	if (dev) {
     ...
    3394		return do_setlink(skb, dev, ifm, extack, tb, ifname, status);
    3395	}

, i.e. do_setlink() gets ifname pointer that is always valid no matter
if user specified IFLA_IFNAME or not and then do_setlink() passes this
ifname pointer as is to __dev_change_net_namespace() as pat argument.

But the pat (pattern) in __dev_change_net_namespace() is used as:

net/core/dev.c
   11198	err = -EEXIST;
   11199	if (__dev_get_by_name(net, dev->name)) {
   11200		/* We get here if we can't use the current device name */
   11201		if (!pat)
   11202			goto out;
   11203		err = dev_get_valid_name(net, dev, pat);
   11204		if (err < 0)
   11205			goto out;
   11206	}

As the result the `goto out` path on line 11202 is neven taken and
instead of returning EEXIST defined on line 11198,
__dev_change_net_namespace() returns an error from dev_get_valid_name()
and this, in turn, will be EINVAL for ifname[0] = '\0' set earlier.

Fixes: d8a5ec6727 ("[NET]: netlink support for moving devices between network namespaces.")
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ignatov <rdna@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2021-08-26 12:08:08 +01:00
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bpfilter bpfilter: Specify the log level for the kmsg message 2021-06-25 13:13:50 +02:00
bridge net: bridge: fix memleak in br_add_if() 2021-08-10 13:25:14 -07:00
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core rtnetlink: Return correct error on changing device netns 2021-08-26 12:08:08 +01:00
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hsr net: hsr: don't check sequence number if tag removal is offloaded 2021-06-16 12:13:01 -07:00
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iucv s390: iucv: Avoid field over-reading memcpy() 2021-07-01 15:54:01 -07:00
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l2tp l2tp: Fix spelling mistakes 2021-06-07 14:08:30 -07:00
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llc net: llc: fix skb_over_panic 2021-07-27 13:05:56 +01:00
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mptcp mptcp: full fully established support after ADD_ADDR 2021-08-19 12:16:54 +01:00
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netfilter netfilter: nfnetlink_hook: translate inet ingress to netdev 2021-08-06 17:07:41 +02:00
netlabel netlabel: Fix memory leak in netlbl_mgmt_add_common 2021-06-15 11:19:04 -07:00
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nfc TTY / Serial patches for 5.14-rc1 2021-07-05 14:08:24 -07:00
nsh
openvswitch ovs: clear skb->tstamp in forwarding path 2021-08-18 11:31:13 +01:00
packet Networking changes for 5.14. 2021-06-30 15:51:09 -07:00
phonet
psample
qrtr net: qrtr: fix another OOB Read in qrtr_endpoint_post 2021-08-20 14:41:03 +01:00
rds net/rds: dma_map_sg is entitled to merge entries 2021-08-18 15:35:50 -07:00
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rose
rxrpc Networking changes for 5.14. 2021-06-30 15:51:09 -07:00
sched net/sched: ets: fix crash when flipping from 'strict' to 'quantum' 2021-08-25 11:15:30 +01:00
sctp sctp: move the active_key update after sh_keys is added 2021-08-03 11:43:43 +01:00
smc net/smc: Correct smc link connection counter in case of smc client 2021-08-09 10:46:59 +01:00
strparser net: sock: introduce sk_error_report 2021-06-29 11:28:21 -07:00
sunrpc NFS client updates for Linux 5.14 2021-07-09 09:43:57 -07:00
switchdev net: switchdev: add a context void pointer to struct switchdev_notifier_info 2021-06-28 14:09:03 -07:00
tipc tipc: call tipc_wait_for_connect only when dlen is not 0 2021-08-16 11:20:56 +01:00
tls Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2021-06-29 15:45:27 -07:00
unix af_unix: fix garbage collect vs MSG_PEEK 2021-07-28 10:18:00 -07:00
vmw_vsock vsock/virtio: avoid potential deadlock when vsock device remove 2021-08-12 10:57:27 -07:00
wireless cfg80211: Fix possible memory leak in function cfg80211_bss_update 2021-07-23 10:38:18 +02:00
x25 net: x25: Use list_for_each_entry() to simplify code in x25_route.c 2021-06-10 14:08:09 -07:00
xdp Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2021-06-29 15:45:27 -07:00
xfrm Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/klassert/ipsec 2021-08-04 10:45:41 +01:00
compat.c net: Return the correct errno code 2021-06-03 15:13:56 -07:00
devres.c net: devres: Correct a grammatical error 2021-06-11 12:55:28 -07:00
Kconfig bpf, kconfig: Add consolidated menu entry for bpf with core options 2021-05-11 13:56:16 -07:00
Makefile
socket.c net: socket: support hardware timestamp conversion to PHC bound 2021-07-01 13:08:18 -07:00
sysctl_net.c net: Ensure net namespace isolation of sysctls 2021-04-12 13:27:11 -07:00