Author: kp
Date: Thu May  7 21:14:11 2020
New Revision: 360799
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/360799

Log:
  MFC r360231:
  
  libc: Shortcut if_indextoname() if index == 0
  
  If the index we're trying to convert is 0 we can avoid a potentially
  expensive call to getifaddrs(). No interface has an ifindex of zero, so
  we can handle this as an error: set the errno to ENXIO and return NULL.
  
  Submitted by: Nick Rogers
  Sponsored by: RG Nets

Modified:
  stable/12/lib/libc/net/if_indextoname.c
Directory Properties:
  stable/12/   (props changed)

Modified: stable/12/lib/libc/net/if_indextoname.c
==============================================================================
--- stable/12/lib/libc/net/if_indextoname.c     Thu May  7 20:29:38 2020        
(r360798)
+++ stable/12/lib/libc/net/if_indextoname.c     Thu May  7 21:14:11 2020        
(r360799)
@@ -66,6 +66,11 @@ if_indextoname(unsigned int ifindex, char *ifname)
        struct ifaddrs *ifaddrs, *ifa;
        int error = 0;
 
+       if (ifindex == 0) {
+               errno = ENXIO;
+               return(NULL);
+       }
+
        if (getifaddrs(&ifaddrs) < 0)
                return(NULL);   /* getifaddrs properly set errno */
 
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