[pve-devel] [PATCH installer 2/2] sys: net: fix error-message for interface names first character

Stoiko Ivanov s.ivanov at proxmox.com
Tue Nov 18 16:15:27 CET 2025


This follows the similar commit for the TUI installer, but as the
validation here was in accordance to the one in pve-common, only
adapts the error-message (and affected test-cases).

Fixes: 2033a35 ("sys: net: pinning: make interface name checks stricter")
Reported-by: Robert Obkircher <r.obkircher at proxmox.com>
Signed-off-by: Stoiko Ivanov <s.ivanov at proxmox.com>
---
 Proxmox/Sys/Net.pm            | 2 +-
 test/validate-link-pin-map.pl | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Proxmox/Sys/Net.pm b/Proxmox/Sys/Net.pm
index f6a0940..37feee1 100644
--- a/Proxmox/Sys/Net.pm
+++ b/Proxmox/Sys/Net.pm
@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ sub validate_link_pin_map : prototype($) {
         }
 
         if ($name !~ m/^[a-z]/) {
-            die "interface name '$name' for '$mac' is invalid: name must start with a letter\n";
+            die "interface name '$name' for '$mac' is invalid: name must start with a lower-case letter\n";
         }
 
         if ($name !~ m/^[a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_]*$/) {
diff --git a/test/validate-link-pin-map.pl b/test/validate-link-pin-map.pl
index 3a95aab..3fbd0e4 100755
--- a/test/validate-link-pin-map.pl
+++ b/test/validate-link-pin-map.pl
@@ -45,14 +45,14 @@ is(
 eval { validate_link_pin_map({ 'ab:cd:ef:12:34:56' => '0nic' }) };
 is(
     $@,
-    "interface name '0nic' for 'ab:cd:ef:12:34:56' is invalid: name must start with a letter\n",
+    "interface name '0nic' for 'ab:cd:ef:12:34:56' is invalid: name must start with a lower-case letter\n",
     "name starting with number is rejected",
 );
 
 eval { validate_link_pin_map({ 'ab:cd:ef:12:34:56' => '_a' }) };
 is(
     $@,
-    "interface name '_a' for 'ab:cd:ef:12:34:56' is invalid: name must start with a letter\n",
+    "interface name '_a' for 'ab:cd:ef:12:34:56' is invalid: name must start with a lower-case letter\n",
     "name starting with underscore is rejected",
 );
 
-- 
2.47.3





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