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    • Pali Rohár's avatar
      ppp: Fix generating ppp unit id when ifname is not specified · 3125f26c
      Pali Rohár authored
      When registering new ppp interface via PPPIOCNEWUNIT ioctl then kernel has
      to choose interface name as this ioctl API does not support specifying it.
      
      Kernel in this case register new interface with name "ppp<id>" where <id>
      is the ppp unit id, which can be obtained via PPPIOCGUNIT ioctl. This
      applies also in the case when registering new ppp interface via rtnl
      without supplying IFLA_IFNAME.
      
      PPPIOCNEWUNIT ioctl allows to specify own ppp unit id which will kernel
      assign to ppp interface, in case this ppp id is not already used by other
      ppp interface.
      
      In case user does not specify ppp unit id then kernel choose the first free
      ppp unit id. This applies also for case when creating ppp interface via
      rtnl method as it does not provide a way for specifying own ppp unit id.
      
      If some network interface (does not have to be ppp) has name "ppp<id>"
      with this first free ppp id then PPPIOCNEWUNIT ioctl or rtnl call fails.
      
      And registering new ppp interface is not possible anymore, until interface
      which holds conflicting name is renamed. Or when using rtnl method with
      custom interface name in IFLA_IFNAME.
      
      As list of allocated / used ppp unit ids is not possible to retrieve from
      kernel to userspace, userspace has no idea what happens nor which interface
      is doing this conflict.
      
      So change the algorithm how ppp unit id is generated. And choose the first
      number which is not neither used as ppp unit id nor in some network
      interface with pattern "ppp<id>".
      
      This issue can be simply reproduced by following pppd call when there is no
      ppp interface registered and also no interface with name pattern "ppp<id>":
      
          pppd ifname ppp1 +ipv6 noip noauth nolock local nodetach pty "pppd +ipv6 noip noauth nolock local nodetach notty"
      
      Or by creating the one ppp interface (which gets assigned ppp unit id 0),
      renaming it to "ppp1" and then trying to create a new ppp interface (which
      will always fails as next free ppp unit id is 1, but network interface with
      name "ppp1" exists).
      
      This patch fixes above described issue by generating new and new ppp unit
      id until some non-conflicting id with network interfaces is generated.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPali Rohár <pali@kernel.org>
      Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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