From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Cong Wang Subject: [Patch net-next 0/3] net: forbid net devices named "all" "default" or "config" Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 15:17:29 -0700 Message-ID: <1406153852-22511-1-git-send-email-xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: stephane.chazelas@gmail.com, davem@davemloft.net, Cong Wang To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail-pd0-f181.google.com ([209.85.192.181]:64462 "EHLO mail-pd0-f181.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933386AbaGWWRx (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2014 18:17:53 -0400 Received: by mail-pd0-f181.google.com with SMTP id g10so2389113pdj.40 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2014 15:17:53 -0700 (PDT) Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: /proc/sys/net/ipv[46]/conf/ could conflict with /proc/sys/net/ipv[46]/conf/(all|default). And /proc/net/vlan/ could conflict with /proc/net/vlan/config. Besides kernel warnings, undefined behavior such as duplicated proc files also appears, therefore we should forbid these names. Cong Wang (3): ipv4: fail early when creating netdev named all or default ipv6: fail early when creating netdev named all or default vlan: fail early when creating netdev named config net/8021q/vlan.c | 21 +++++++++------- net/8021q/vlanproc.c | 2 ++ net/ipv4/devinet.c | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++------- net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 67 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------ 4 files changed, 87 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-) -- 1.8.3.1