We don't try to resolve invalid ifnames as all. A different return
code is used. This difference will be verified later in test_socket_address_parse()
when socket_address_parse() is converted to use
in_addr_port_ifindex_name_from_string_auto().
if (isempty(m + 1))
return -EINVAL;
+ if (!ifname_valid_full(m + 1, IFNAME_VALID_ALTERNATIVE | IFNAME_VALID_NUMERIC))
+ return -EINVAL; /* We want to return -EINVAL for syntactically invalid names,
+ * and -ENODEV for valid but nonexistent interfaces. */
+
ifindex = resolve_interface(NULL, m + 1);
if (ifindex < 0)
return ifindex;