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| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/rtnetlink.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c index a76f3024687f..0478f8cddd96 100644 --- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c +++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c @@ -2311,7 +2311,10 @@ static int rtnl_setlink(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, ifm = nlmsg_data(nlh); if (ifm->ifi_index > 0) dev = __dev_get_by_index(net, ifm->ifi_index); - else if (tb[IFLA_IFNAME]) + else if (ifm->ifi_index < 0) { + NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack, "ifindex can't be negative"); + return -EINVAL; + } else if (tb[IFLA_IFNAME]) dev = __dev_get_by_name(net, ifname); else goto errout; |