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[PATCH net-next v2 4/4] net: hsr: reject unresolved interlink ifindex

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Date: 2026-03-26 15:47:49
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Subsystem: hsr network protocol, networking [general], the rest · Maintainers: "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

From: Luka Gejak <redacted>

In hsr_newlink(), a provided but invalid IFLA_HSR_INTERLINK attribute
was silently ignored if __dev_get_by_index() returned NULL. This leads
to incorrect RedBox topology creation without notifying the user.

Fix this by returning -EINVAL and an extack message when the
interlink attribute is present but cannot be resolved.

Reviewed-by: Felix Maurer <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Luka Gejak <redacted>
---
 net/hsr/hsr_netlink.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/hsr/hsr_netlink.c b/net/hsr/hsr_netlink.c
index db0b0af7a692..f0ca23da3ab9 100644
--- a/net/hsr/hsr_netlink.c
+++ b/net/hsr/hsr_netlink.c
@@ -76,9 +76,14 @@ static int hsr_newlink(struct net_device *dev,
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
-	if (data[IFLA_HSR_INTERLINK])
+	if (data[IFLA_HSR_INTERLINK]) {
 		interlink = __dev_get_by_index(link_net,
 					       nla_get_u32(data[IFLA_HSR_INTERLINK]));
+		if (!interlink) {
+			NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(extack, "Interlink does not exist");
+			return -EINVAL;
+		}
+	}
 
 	if (interlink && interlink == link[0]) {
 		NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(extack, "Interlink and Slave1 are the same");
-- 
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