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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>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	 Gustavo Luiz Duarte <gustavold@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next 3/4] netconsole: reject enabling a target with no remote IP address
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2026 22:33:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260805-netcons_ipv6-v1-3-170a35b92da1@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260805-netcons_ipv6-v1-0-170a35b92da1@gmail.com>

The command-line path already requires a remote address, but if a user
creates a dynamic target and enables it without setting a remote
address, we currently try sending netconsole traffic to "0.0.0.0".

Refuse to enable a target if the remote address is unset.

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 070bae7b4fd7..a41b0a5ce64f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/netconsole.c
+++ b/drivers/net/netconsole.c
@@ -471,6 +471,12 @@ static int netcons_netpoll_setup(struct netconsole_target *nt)
 	int err;
 
 	rtnl_lock();
+	if (nt->remote_ip.family == AF_UNSPEC) {
+		np_err(np, "remote IP address not configured, aborting\n");
+		err = -EDESTADDRREQ;
+		goto unlock;
+	}
+
 	if (np->dev_name[0])
 		ndev = __dev_get_by_name(net, np->dev_name);
 	else if (is_valid_ether_addr(np->dev_mac))

-- 
2.55.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-08-05 21:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-05 21:33 [PATCH net-next 0/4] netconsole: validate a target's IP address configuration Gustavo Luiz Duarte
2026-08-05 21:33 ` [PATCH net-next 1/4] netconsole: add an address family to struct inet_addr Gustavo Luiz Duarte
2026-08-06 15:49   ` Breno Leitao
2026-08-07 11:21     ` Gustavo Luiz Duarte
2026-08-05 21:33 ` [PATCH net-next 2/4] netconsole: use the address family instead of the ipv6 flag Gustavo Luiz Duarte
2026-08-06 15:55   ` Breno Leitao
2026-08-07 12:00     ` Gustavo Luiz Duarte
2026-08-07 13:11       ` Breno Leitao
2026-08-05 21:33 ` Gustavo Luiz Duarte [this message]
2026-08-06 15:58   ` [PATCH net-next 3/4] netconsole: reject enabling a target with no remote IP address Breno Leitao
2026-08-07 12:11     ` Gustavo Luiz Duarte
2026-08-05 21:33 ` [PATCH net-next 4/4] netconsole: reject a target mixing IPv4 and IPv6 addresses Gustavo Luiz Duarte

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