Commit 1d9afaa5 authored by Michal Schmidt's avatar Michal Schmidt Committed by Sasha Levin

rtnetlink: NUL-terminate IFLA_PHYS_PORT_NAME string

[ Upstream commit 77ef033b ]

IFLA_PHYS_PORT_NAME is a string attribute, so terminate it with \0.
Otherwise libnl3 fails to validate netlink messages with this attribute.
"ip -detail a" assumes too that the attribute is NUL-terminated when
printing it. It often was, due to padding.

I noticed this as libvirtd failing to start on a system with sfc driver
after upgrading it to Linux 4.11, i.e. when sfc added support for
phys_port_name.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
parent 226d2005
......@@ -997,7 +997,7 @@ static int rtnl_phys_port_name_fill(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
return err;
}
if (nla_put(skb, IFLA_PHYS_PORT_NAME, strlen(name), name))
if (nla_put_string(skb, IFLA_PHYS_PORT_NAME, name))
return -EMSGSIZE;
return 0;
......
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