Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/5] net: fix ifname in netlink ntf during netns move

From: Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2023 13:21:23 -0700

On Mon, 16 Oct 2023 13:16:53 -0700 Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> +static int dev_prep_valid_name(struct net *net, struct net_device *dev,
> +			       const char *want_name, char *out_name)

> +	if (strchr(want_name, '%')) {
> +		ret = __dev_alloc_name(net, want_name, out_name);
> +		return ret < 0 ? ret : 0;

> -	if (strchr(name, '%'))
> -		return dev_alloc_name_ns(net, dev, name);
> -	else if (netdev_name_in_use(net, name))
> -		return -EEXIST;
> -	else if (dev->name != name)
> -		strscpy(dev->name, name, IFNAMSIZ);
> -
> -	return 0;
> +	return dev_prep_valid_name(net, dev, name, dev->name);

Humpf, this is not right. IDK what magic seeing something on the ML
has but I looked at this 3 times, and the moment I see it on the list
I immediately realize that the dev_alloc_name_ns() -> __dev_alloc_name()
conversion here is not really exact. We need to go thru a temp buffer
like dev_alloc_name_ns() does, because for whatever reason
__dev_alloc_name_ns() uses its input argument as a scratch buffer.
So if we pass dev->name directly and it fails the name will be
scrambled.
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