commit 7663d52209 upstream.
It's currently possible to create an altname conflicting
with an altname or real name of another device by creating
it in another netns and moving it over:
[ ~]$ ip link add dev eth0 type dummy
[ ~]$ ip netns add test
[ ~]$ ip -netns test link add dev ethX netns test type dummy
[ ~]$ ip -netns test link property add dev ethX altname eth0
[ ~]$ ip -netns test link set dev ethX netns 1
[ ~]$ ip link
...
3: eth0: <BROADCAST,NOARP> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
link/ether 02:40:88:62:ec:b8 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
...
5: ethX: <BROADCAST,NOARP> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
link/ether 26:b7:28:78:38:0f brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
altname eth0
Create a macro for walking the altnames, this hopefully makes
it clearer that the list we walk contains only altnames.
Which is otherwise not entirely intuitive.
Fixes: 36fbf1e52b ("net: rtnetlink: add linkprop commands to add and delete alternative ifnames")
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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