Geneve's Virtual Network Identifier (VNI) is 24 bit long, so the range of values for it would be from 0 to 16777215 (2^24 -1). However, one cannot create a geneve device with VNI set to 16777215. This patch fixes this issue.
Signed-off-by: Girish Moodalbail <girish.moodalb...@oracle.com> --- drivers/net/geneve.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/geneve.c b/drivers/net/geneve.c index 745d57ae..8b8565d 100644 --- a/drivers/net/geneve.c +++ b/drivers/net/geneve.c @@ -1099,7 +1099,7 @@ static int geneve_validate(struct nlattr *tb[], struct nlattr *data[], if (data[IFLA_GENEVE_ID]) { __u32 vni = nla_get_u32(data[IFLA_GENEVE_ID]); - if (vni >= GENEVE_VID_MASK) + if (vni >= GENEVE_N_VID) return -ERANGE; } -- 1.8.3.1