From: Serhey Popovych <serhe.popovych@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit df52eab23d703142c766ac00bdb8db19d71238d0 ] Configuring generic network device parameters on tun will fail in presence of IFLA_INFO_KIND attribute in IFLA_LINKINFO nested attribute since tun_validate() always return failure. This can be visualized with following ip-link(8) command sequences: # ip link set dev tun0 group 100 # ip link set dev tun0 group 100 type tun RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument with contrast to dummy and veth drivers: # ip link set dev dummy0 group 100 # ip link set dev dummy0 type dummy # ip link set dev veth0 group 100 # ip link set dev veth0 group 100 type veth Fix by returning zero in tun_validate() when @data is NULL that is always in case since rtnl_link_ops->maxtype is zero in tun driver. Fixes: f019a7a594d9 ("tun: Implement ip link del tunXXX") Signed-off-by: Serhey Popovych <serhe.popovych@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/tun.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c index 50e9cc19023a..c52207beef88 100644 --- a/drivers/net/tun.c +++ b/drivers/net/tun.c @@ -2264,6 +2264,8 @@ static void tun_setup(struct net_device *dev) static int tun_validate(struct nlattr *tb[], struct nlattr *data[], struct netlink_ext_ack *extack) { + if (!data) + return 0; return -EINVAL; } -- 2.17.1