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From: Gustavo Luiz Duarte <gustavold@gmail.com>
To: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
	 "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,  Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	 Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Gustavo Luiz Duarte <gustavold@gmail.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org,  linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net-next v3 4/7] netconsole: reject a target mixing IPv4 and IPv6 addresses
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2026 20:28:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260814-netcons_ipv6-v3-4-bc0915e8c75f@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260814-netcons_ipv6-v3-0-bc0915e8c75f@gmail.com>

The local_ip and remote_ip configfs attributes are written independently
and nothing stops a user from mixing ipv4 and ipv6. This leads to an
ipv4 address being zero-extended into an ipv6 header or an ipv6 address
being truncated to its first 4 bytes for an ipv4 header.

The command-line parser already refuses such a mismatch. This adds a
similar check when a dynamic target is being enabled.

Reviewed-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Gustavo Luiz Duarte <gustavold@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/net/netconsole.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/netconsole.c b/drivers/net/netconsole.c
index 4af4f3039d4c..abcc8515ddd2 100644
--- a/drivers/net/netconsole.c
+++ b/drivers/net/netconsole.c
@@ -488,6 +488,12 @@ static int netcons_netpoll_setup(struct netconsole_target *nt)
 		return -EDESTADDRREQ;
 	}
 
+	if (nt->local_ip.family != AF_UNSPEC &&
+	    nt->local_ip.family != nt->remote_ip.family) {
+		np_err(np, "local and remote IP address families differ, aborting\n");
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
+
 	rtnl_lock();
 	if (np->dev_name[0])
 		ndev = __dev_get_by_name(net, np->dev_name);

-- 
2.55.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-08-14 19:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-14 19:28 [PATCH net-next v3 0/7] netconsole: validate a target's IP address configuration Gustavo Luiz Duarte
2026-08-14 19:28 ` [PATCH net-next v3 1/7] netconsole: add an address family to struct inet_addr Gustavo Luiz Duarte
2026-08-14 19:28 ` [PATCH net-next v3 2/7] netconsole: use the address family instead of the ipv6 flag Gustavo Luiz Duarte
2026-08-14 19:28 ` [PATCH net-next v3 3/7] netconsole: reject enabling a target with no remote IP address Gustavo Luiz Duarte
2026-08-14 19:28 ` Gustavo Luiz Duarte [this message]
2026-08-14 19:28 ` [PATCH net-next v3 5/7] netconsole: show empty string for an unset " Gustavo Luiz Duarte
2026-08-14 19:28 ` [PATCH net-next v3 6/7] netconsole: move struct inet_addr into netconsole.c Gustavo Luiz Duarte
2026-08-14 19:28 ` [PATCH net-next v3 7/7] docs: netconsole: document local_ip auto-selection Gustavo Luiz Duarte
2026-08-17  8:32   ` Breno Leitao
2026-08-18 16:51 ` [PATCH net-next v3 0/7] netconsole: validate a target's IP address configuration Jakub Kicinski
2026-08-19 14:26   ` Gustavo Luiz Duarte

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