Re: Linux 4.14.324

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, Oct 09, 2023 at 11:36:35AM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 05:02:37PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > I'm announcing the release of the 4.14.324 kernel.
> > 
> > All users of the 4.14 kernel series must upgrade.
> > 
> > The updated 4.14.y git tree can be found at:
> > 	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-4.14.y
> > and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser:
> > 	https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git;a=summary
> > 
> ...
> > 
> > Ido Schimmel (1):
> >       rtnetlink: Reject negative ifindexes in RTM_NEWLINK
> 
> 
> The above commit (69197b2 rtnetlink: Reject negative ifindexes in RTM_NEWLINK)
> appears to has been applied icorrectly, causing some regressions (like attaching
> a VF to a running guest). The change needs to be made in rtnl_newlink(), not
> rtnl_setlink().
> 
> I didn't check all other branches but at least 5.4 looks OK.
> 
> I believe 69197b2 needs to be reverted and instead this applied:
> 
> diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
> index a76f3024..f4b98f7 100644
> --- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
> +++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
> @@ -2547,9 +2547,12 @@ static int rtnl_newlink(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
>                 ifname[0] = '\0';
>  
>         ifm = nlmsg_data(nlh);
> -       if (ifm->ifi_index > 0)
> +       if (ifm->ifi_index > 0) {
>                 dev = __dev_get_by_index(net, ifm->ifi_index);
> -       else {
> +       } else if (ifm->ifi_index < 0) {
> +               NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack, "ifindex can't be negative");
> +               return -EINVAL;
> +       } else {
>                 if (ifname[0])
>                         dev = __dev_get_by_name(net, ifname);
>                 else
> 
> 

Ick, good catch!  4.19 also looks wrong, let me go revert the original
and then use this version again instead, many thanks for this!

greg k-h