[PATCH] net/tap: fix the overflow of the network interface index.

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Thu, 21 Jul 2022 11:13:01 +0000
Alex Kiselev <alex at bisonrouter.com> wrote:

> On Linux and most other systems, network interface index is a 32-bit
> integer.  Indexes overflowing the 16-bit integer are frequently seen
> when used inside a Docker container.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Kiselev <alex at bisonrouter.com>

Looks good, Linux API is inconsistent in use of signed vs unsigned
int for the ifindex. But negative values are never used/returned.

Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>