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| author | Matthew Thode <mthode@mthode.org> | 2015-02-17 18:31:57 -0600 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2015-03-18 13:22:27 +0100 |
| commit | cde81ed79fc1540a3c3e775515d72f441aef8e6c (patch) | |
| tree | 59234bc6b924db19c163f7b1a697fbc4d9ff70e0 /net | |
| parent | cae79d75dd639bca743b91d5532a09d90bc3492d (diff) | |
net: reject creation of netdev names with colons
[ Upstream commit a4176a9391868bfa87705bcd2e3b49e9b9dd2996 ]
colons are used as a separator in netdev device lookup in dev_ioctl.c
Specific functions are SIOCGIFTXQLEN SIOCETHTOOL SIOCSIFNAME
Signed-off-by: Matthew Thode <mthode@mthode.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/dev.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index c310440309bb..aeca8dd88b2a 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -927,7 +927,7 @@ bool dev_valid_name(const char *name) return false; while (*name) { - if (*name == '/' || isspace(*name)) + if (*name == '/' || *name == ':' || isspace(*name)) return false; name++; } |