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* [PATCH] colons are invalid characters in netdev names
@ 2015-02-17 23:15 Matthew Thode
  2015-02-17 23:46 ` Lino Sanfilippo
  2015-02-18  1:28 ` Stephen Hemminger
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Matthew Thode @ 2015-02-17 23:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: davem; +Cc: netdev, linux-kernel, Matthew Thode

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>
---
 net/core/dev.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index d030575..e9b6d5a 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -942,7 +942,7 @@ bool dev_valid_name(const char *name)
 		return false;
 	if (strlen(name) >= IFNAMSIZ)
 		return false;
-	if (!strcmp(name, ".") || !strcmp(name, ".."))
+	if (!strcmp(name, ".") || !strcmp(name, "..") || !strcmp(name, ":"))
 		return false;
 
 	while (*name) {
-- 
2.0.5

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