ipv4: fail early when creating netdev named all or default

We create a proc dir for each network device, this will cause
conflicts when the devices have name "all" or "default".

Rather than emitting an ugly kernel warning, we could just
fail earlier by checking the device name.

Reported-by: Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chazelas@gmail.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

2 files changed, 33 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/ip.h b/include/net/ip.h
index ca14799545fd..09b32da1b929 100644
--- a/include/net/ip.h
+++ b/include/net/ip.h
@@ -216,6 +216,12 @@ static inline int inet_is_local_reserved_port(struct net *net, int port)
 		return 0;
 	return test_bit(port, net->ipv4.sysctl_local_reserved_ports);
 }
+
+static inline bool sysctl_dev_name_is_allowed(const char *name)
+{
+	return strcmp(name, "default") != 0  && strcmp(name, "all") != 0;
+}
+
 #else
 static inline int inet_is_local_reserved_port(struct net *net, int port)
 {
diff --git a/net/ipv4/devinet.c b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
index e9449376b58e..214882e7d6de 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/devinet.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
@@ -180,11 +180,12 @@ static BLOCKING_NOTIFIER_HEAD(inetaddr_chain);
 static void inet_del_ifa(struct in_device *in_dev, struct in_ifaddr **ifap,
 			 int destroy);
 #ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL
-static void devinet_sysctl_register(struct in_device *idev);
+static int devinet_sysctl_register(struct in_device *idev);
 static void devinet_sysctl_unregister(struct in_device *idev);
 #else
-static void devinet_sysctl_register(struct in_device *idev)
+static int devinet_sysctl_register(struct in_device *idev)
 {
+	return 0;
 }
 static void devinet_sysctl_unregister(struct in_device *idev)
 {
@@ -232,6 +233,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(in_dev_finish_destroy);
 static struct in_device *inetdev_init(struct net_device *dev)
 {
 	struct in_device *in_dev;
+	int err = -ENOMEM;
 
 	ASSERT_RTNL();
 
@@ -252,7 +254,13 @@ static struct in_device *inetdev_init(struct net_device *dev)
 	/* Account for reference dev->ip_ptr (below) */
 	in_dev_hold(in_dev);
 
-	devinet_sysctl_register(in_dev);
+	err = devinet_sysctl_register(in_dev);
+	if (err) {
+		in_dev->dead = 1;
+		in_dev_put(in_dev);
+		in_dev = NULL;
+		goto out;
+	}
 	ip_mc_init_dev(in_dev);
 	if (dev->flags & IFF_UP)
 		ip_mc_up(in_dev);
@@ -260,7 +268,7 @@ static struct in_device *inetdev_init(struct net_device *dev)
 	/* we can receive as soon as ip_ptr is set -- do this last */
 	rcu_assign_pointer(dev->ip_ptr, in_dev);
 out:
-	return in_dev;
+	return in_dev ?: ERR_PTR(err);
 out_kfree:
 	kfree(in_dev);
 	in_dev = NULL;
@@ -1347,8 +1355,8 @@ static int inetdev_event(struct notifier_block *this, unsigned long event,
 	if (!in_dev) {
 		if (event == NETDEV_REGISTER) {
 			in_dev = inetdev_init(dev);
-			if (!in_dev)
-				return notifier_from_errno(-ENOMEM);
+			if (IS_ERR(in_dev))
+				return notifier_from_errno(PTR_ERR(in_dev));
 			if (dev->flags & IFF_LOOPBACK) {
 				IN_DEV_CONF_SET(in_dev, NOXFRM, 1);
 				IN_DEV_CONF_SET(in_dev, NOPOLICY, 1);
@@ -2182,11 +2190,21 @@ static void __devinet_sysctl_unregister(struct ipv4_devconf *cnf)
 	kfree(t);
 }
 
-static void devinet_sysctl_register(struct in_device *idev)
+static int devinet_sysctl_register(struct in_device *idev)
 {
-	neigh_sysctl_register(idev->dev, idev->arp_parms, NULL);
-	__devinet_sysctl_register(dev_net(idev->dev), idev->dev->name,
+	int err;
+
+	if (!sysctl_dev_name_is_allowed(idev->dev->name))
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	err = neigh_sysctl_register(idev->dev, idev->arp_parms, NULL);
+	if (err)
+		return err;
+	err = __devinet_sysctl_register(dev_net(idev->dev), idev->dev->name,
 					&idev->cnf);
+	if (err)
+		neigh_sysctl_unregister(idev->arp_parms);
+	return err;
 }
 
 static void devinet_sysctl_unregister(struct in_device *idev)