hv_netvsc: fix bogus ifalias on network device
authorStephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Thu, 24 May 2018 01:02:00 +0000 (18:02 -0700)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fri, 25 May 2018 03:06:33 +0000 (23:06 -0400)
If the guest network adapter is not configured with DeviceNaming
enabled on the host, then the query for friendly name will return
success but with a zero length name. Which then leads to a garbage value
(stack contents) for ifalias.

Fix is simple, just don't set name if  host doesn't return it.

Fixes: 0fe554a46a0f ("hv_netvsc: propogate Hyper-V friendly name into interface alias")
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/hyperv/rndis_filter.c

index 7f3dab4b4cbca2a690d32ff05b1ebf961012f733..5428bb26110262fdfb66daaac8463c91e7981d42 100644 (file)
@@ -1237,7 +1237,10 @@ static void rndis_get_friendly_name(struct net_device *net,
        if (rndis_filter_query_device(rndis_device, net_device,
                                      RNDIS_OID_GEN_FRIENDLY_NAME,
                                      wname, &size) != 0)
-               return;
+               return; /* ignore if host does not support */
+
+       if (size == 0)
+               return; /* name not set */
 
        /* Convert Windows Unicode string to UTF-8 */
        len = ucs2_as_utf8(ifalias, wname, sizeof(ifalias));