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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2016-01-25 17:16:27 +0100
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2016-01-25 17:50:33 +0100
commit6c1e69f9456d022f14dd00737126cfa4d9cca10c (patch)
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udev: filter out non-sensically high onboard indexes reported by the kernel
Let's not accept onboard interface indexes, that are so high that they are obviously non-sensical. Fixes: #2407
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diff --git a/src/udev/udev-builtin-net_id.c b/src/udev/udev-builtin-net_id.c
index e83b8b1c12..104d5111c5 100644
--- a/src/udev/udev-builtin-net_id.c
+++ b/src/udev/udev-builtin-net_id.c
@@ -106,6 +106,8 @@
#include "string-util.h"
#include "udev.h"
+#define ONBOARD_INDEX_MAX (16*1024-1)
+
enum netname_type{
NET_UNDEF,
NET_PCI,
@@ -152,6 +154,13 @@ static int dev_pci_onboard(struct udev_device *dev, struct netnames *names) {
if (idx <= 0)
return -EINVAL;
+ /* Some BIOSes report rubbish indexes that are excessively high (2^24-1 is an index VMware likes to report for
+ * example). Let's define a cut-off where we don't consider the index reliable anymore. We pick some arbitrary
+ * cut-off, which is somewhere beyond the realistic number of physical network interface a system might
+ * have. Ideally the kernel would already filter his crap for us, but it doesn't currently. */
+ if (idx > ONBOARD_INDEX_MAX)
+ return -ENOENT;
+
/* kernel provided port index for multiple ports on a single PCI function */
attr = udev_device_get_sysattr_value(dev, "dev_port");
if (attr)