Let's not accept onboard interface indexes, that are so high that they are obviously non-sensical.
Fixes: #2407
#include "string-util.h"
#include "udev.h"
+#define ONBOARD_INDEX_MAX (16*1024-1)
+
enum netname_type{
NET_UNDEF,
NET_PCI,
if (idx <= 0)
return -EINVAL;
+ /* Some BIOSes report rubbish indexes that are excessively high (2^24-1 is an index VMware likes to report for
+ * example). Let's define a cut-off where we don't consider the index reliable anymore. We pick some arbitrary
+ * cut-off, which is somewhere beyond the realistic number of physical network interface a system might
+ * have. Ideally the kernel would already filter his crap for us, but it doesn't currently. */
+ if (idx > ONBOARD_INDEX_MAX)
+ return -ENOENT;
+
/* kernel provided port index for multiple ports on a single PCI function */
attr = udev_device_get_sysattr_value(dev, "dev_port");
if (attr)