This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled rtnetlink: Don't ignore IFLA_TARGET_NETNSID when ifname is specified in rtnl_dellink(). to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: rtnetlink-don-t-ignore-ifla_target_netnsid-when-ifna.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 7374a27fd31557f42410c05acf013cfd26b48463 Author: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Jul 26 17:19:53 2024 -0700 rtnetlink: Don't ignore IFLA_TARGET_NETNSID when ifname is specified in rtnl_dellink(). [ Upstream commit 9415d375d8520e0ed55f0c0b058928da9a5b5b3d ] The cited commit accidentally replaced tgt_net with net in rtnl_dellink(). As a result, IFLA_TARGET_NETNSID is ignored if the interface is specified with IFLA_IFNAME or IFLA_ALT_IFNAME. Let's pass tgt_net to rtnl_dev_get(). Fixes: cc6090e985d7 ("net: rtnetlink: introduce helper to get net_device instance by ifname") Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c index 1163226c025c1..be663a7382ce9 100644 --- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c +++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c @@ -3178,7 +3178,7 @@ static int rtnl_dellink(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, if (ifm->ifi_index > 0) dev = __dev_get_by_index(tgt_net, ifm->ifi_index); else if (tb[IFLA_IFNAME] || tb[IFLA_ALT_IFNAME]) - dev = rtnl_dev_get(net, tb); + dev = rtnl_dev_get(tgt_net, tb); else if (tb[IFLA_GROUP]) err = rtnl_group_dellink(tgt_net, nla_get_u32(tb[IFLA_GROUP])); else