From: Christoph Heiss <c.heiss@proxmox.com>
To: pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com
Subject: [pve-devel] [PATCH installer] auto: answer: netif pinning: transform mac addresses into lowercase
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2026 15:51:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260114145208.1500825-1-c.heiss@proxmox.com> (raw)
Users may specify MAC addresses in the network interface pinning map in
an uppercase format, which is more common than lowercase in some
environments.
This would then cause the auto-installer to mistakenly consider these
addresses as unknown - thus just unconditionally convert all MAC
addresses to lowercase while parsing.
Reported-by: Aaron Lauterer <a.lauterer@proxmox.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Heiss <c.heiss@proxmox.com>
---
proxmox-auto-installer/src/answer.rs | 7 ++++-
proxmox-auto-installer/tests/parse-answer.rs | 1 +
...terface_pinning_uppercase_mac_address.json | 30 +++++++++++++++++++
...terface_pinning_uppercase_mac_address.toml | 22 ++++++++++++++
4 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
create mode 100644 proxmox-auto-installer/tests/resources/parse_answer/network_interface_pinning_uppercase_mac_address.json
create mode 100644 proxmox-auto-installer/tests/resources/parse_answer/network_interface_pinning_uppercase_mac_address.toml
diff --git a/proxmox-auto-installer/src/answer.rs b/proxmox-auto-installer/src/answer.rs
index 1e455ca..d12e088 100644
--- a/proxmox-auto-installer/src/answer.rs
+++ b/proxmox-auto-installer/src/answer.rs
@@ -225,8 +225,13 @@ impl TryFrom<NetworkInAnswer> for Network {
let interface_name_pinning = match network.interface_name_pinning {
Some(opts) if opts.enabled => {
let opts = NetworkInterfacePinningOptions {
- mapping: opts.mapping,
+ mapping: opts
+ .mapping
+ .iter()
+ .map(|(k, v)| (k.to_lowercase(), v.clone()))
+ .collect(),
};
+
opts.verify()?;
Some(opts)
}
diff --git a/proxmox-auto-installer/tests/parse-answer.rs b/proxmox-auto-installer/tests/parse-answer.rs
index 696fe1f..7dd4a9d 100644
--- a/proxmox-auto-installer/tests/parse-answer.rs
+++ b/proxmox-auto-installer/tests/parse-answer.rs
@@ -130,6 +130,7 @@ mod tests {
hashed_root_password,
minimal,
network_interface_pinning,
+ network_interface_pinning_uppercase_mac_address,
nic_matching,
specific_nic,
zfs,
diff --git a/proxmox-auto-installer/tests/resources/parse_answer/network_interface_pinning_uppercase_mac_address.json b/proxmox-auto-installer/tests/resources/parse_answer/network_interface_pinning_uppercase_mac_address.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..76723c8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/proxmox-auto-installer/tests/resources/parse_answer/network_interface_pinning_uppercase_mac_address.json
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+{
+ "autoreboot": 1,
+ "cidr": "192.168.1.114/24",
+ "country": "at",
+ "dns": "192.168.1.254",
+ "domain": "testinstall",
+ "filesys": "ext4",
+ "gateway": "192.168.1.1",
+ "hdsize": 223.57088470458984,
+ "existing_storage_auto_rename": 1,
+ "hostname": "pveauto",
+ "keymap": "de",
+ "mailto": "mail@no.invalid",
+ "mngmt_nic": "mgmt",
+ "network_interface_pin_map": {
+ "1c:34:da:5c:5e:24": "nic2",
+ "1c:34:da:5c:5e:25": "nic3",
+ "24:8a:07:1e:05:bc": "lan0",
+ "24:8a:07:1e:05:bd": "lan1",
+ "5a:47:32:dd:c7:47": "nic8",
+ "a0:36:9f:0a:b3:82": "nic6",
+ "a0:36:9f:0a:b3:83": "nic7",
+ "b4:2e:99:ac:ad:b4": "mgmt",
+ "b4:2e:99:ac:ad:b5": "nic1"
+ },
+ "root_password": { "plain": "12345678" },
+ "target_hd": "/dev/sda",
+ "timezone": "Europe/Vienna",
+ "first_boot": { "enabled": 0 }
+}
diff --git a/proxmox-auto-installer/tests/resources/parse_answer/network_interface_pinning_uppercase_mac_address.toml b/proxmox-auto-installer/tests/resources/parse_answer/network_interface_pinning_uppercase_mac_address.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6681fe9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/proxmox-auto-installer/tests/resources/parse_answer/network_interface_pinning_uppercase_mac_address.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+[global]
+keyboard = "de"
+country = "at"
+fqdn = "pveauto.testinstall"
+mailto = "mail@no.invalid"
+timezone = "Europe/Vienna"
+root-password = "12345678"
+
+[network]
+source = "from-dhcp"
+
+[network.interface-name-pinning]
+enabled = true
+
+[network.interface-name-pinning.mapping]
+"24:8A:07:1E:05:BC" = "lan0"
+"24:8A:07:1E:05:BD" = "lan1"
+"B4:2E:99:AC:AD:B4" = "mgmt"
+
+[disk-setup]
+filesystem = "ext4"
+disk-list = ["sda"]
--
2.52.0
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