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From: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Wirt <formorer@debian.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/12] Prevent renaming interfaces to empty string.
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 19:45:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1192211154.4733.67.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071012100743.0c1a11f8@freepuppy.rosehill>


On fre, 2007-10-12 at 10:07 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:

> >  	if (newname && strcmp(dev, newname)) {
> > +		if (strlen(newname) == 0) {
> > +		    printf("\"\" is not valid device identifier\n");
> > +		    return -1;
> > +		}
> >  		if (do_changename(dev, newname) < 0)
> >  			return -1;
> >  		dev = newname;
> 
> The kernel should already be preventing this?

Looks like something prevents the interface to end up with no name, but
there's no error message...

./ip/ip is the "vanilla" and /sbin/ip is debians version.

$ sudo ./ip/ip link set skif name ""
$ echo $?
0
$ sudo /sbin/ip link set skif name ""
"" is not valid device identifier
$ echo $?
255

Reporting the error is probably the preferred behaviour (and return code
set to error is most likely helpful for scripts).


-- 
Regards,
Andreas Henriksson


      reply	other threads:[~2007-10-12 17:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-12  8:56 [PATCH 01/12] Fix various typos and nitpicks Andreas Henriksson
2007-10-12  8:56 ` [PATCH 02/12] Add parameters to usage help text Andreas Henriksson
2007-10-12  8:56   ` [PATCH 03/12] Prevent renaming interfaces to empty string Andreas Henriksson
2007-10-12  8:56     ` [PATCH 04/12] Fix up various problems in netbug script Andreas Henriksson
2007-10-12  8:56       ` [PATCH 05/12] Fix typo in tunnel code (o_key vs. i_key) Andreas Henriksson
2007-10-12  8:56         ` [PATCH 06/12] Remove bogus reference to tc-filters(8) from tc(8) manpage Andreas Henriksson
2007-10-12  8:56           ` [PATCH 07/12] Fix corruption when using batch files with comments and broken lines Andreas Henriksson
2007-10-12  8:56             ` [PATCH 08/12] Fix ematch cmp and nbyte syntax help text Andreas Henriksson
2007-10-12  8:56               ` [PATCH 09/12] Add new rtacct/nstat manpages and additional symlinks Andreas Henriksson
2007-10-12  8:56                 ` [PATCH 10/12] Fix off-by-one in print of wrandom algo Andreas Henriksson
2007-10-12  8:56                   ` [PATCH 11/12] Fix overflow in time2tick / tick2time Andreas Henriksson
2007-10-12  8:56                     ` [PATCH 12/12] Drop bogus reference to tc-filters and add lartc.org link to manpage Andreas Henriksson
2007-10-12 21:50                       ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-10-12 22:49                         ` Patrick McHardy
2007-10-17 16:50                         ` Andreas Henriksson
2007-10-17 17:05                           ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-10-17 17:58                             ` Andreas Henriksson
2007-10-17 18:02                               ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-10-18  8:13                                 ` Andreas Henriksson
2007-10-12 21:39                   ` [PATCH 10/12] Fix off-by-one in print of wrandom algo Stephen Hemminger
2007-10-12 17:14       ` [PATCH 04/12] Fix up various problems in netbug script Stephen Hemminger
2007-10-12 17:39         ` Andreas Henriksson
2007-10-12 12:01     ` [PATCH 03/12] Prevent renaming interfaces to empty string Patrick McHardy
2007-10-12 17:07     ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-10-12 17:45       ` Andreas Henriksson [this message]

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