Marc Kleine-Budde 356c7fdf68 can: netlink: can_changelink(): allow disabling of automatic restart
commit 8e93ac51e4c6dc399fad59ec21f55f2cfb46d27c upstream.

Since the commit c1f3f9797c1f ("can: netlink: can_changelink(): fix NULL
pointer deref of struct can_priv::do_set_mode"), the automatic restart
delay can only be set for devices that implement the restart handler struct
can_priv::do_set_mode. As it makes no sense to configure a automatic
restart for devices that doesn't support it.

However, since systemd commit 13ce5d4632e3 ("network/can: properly handle
CAN.RestartSec=0") [1], systemd-networkd correctly handles a restart delay
of "0" (i.e. the restart is disabled). Which means that a disabled restart
is always configured in the kernel.

On systems with both changes active this causes that CAN interfaces that
don't implement a restart handler cannot be brought up by systemd-networkd.

Solve this problem by allowing a delay of "0" to be configured, even if the
device does not implement a restart handler.

[1] 13ce5d4632

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andrei Lalaev <andrey.lalaev@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251020-certain-arrogant-vole-of-sunshine-141841-mkl@pengutronix.de
Fixes: c1f3f9797c1f ("can: netlink: can_changelink(): fix NULL pointer deref of struct can_priv::do_set_mode")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251020-netlink-fix-restart-v1-1-3f53c7f8520b@pengutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2025-10-29 14:07:02 +01:00
2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00

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