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SubjectRe: [PATCH] restrict class names to valid file names
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 04:13:36PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 16:05:14 -0800
> Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 03:13:57PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > > It is possible to name network devices with names like "my/bogus" or "." or ".."
> > > which leaves /sys/class/net/ a mess. Since other subsystems could have the same
> > > problem, it made sense to me to enforce some restrictions in the class device
> > > layer.
> > >
> > > A lateer patch fixes the network device registration path because the
> > > sysfs registration takes place after the register_netdevice call has taken place.
> >
> > Heh, so you will have already "scrubbed" the name before you submit it
> > to the driver core? If so, why add this patch?
>
> Because name won't be scrubbed for the rename case

Why not? Does that mean that those characters are valid names for
network devices if the device is renamed from userspace?

> , and other class devices probably have the same possible problem

I don't know of any other class device code in the kernel that accepts
userspace input as its name.

thanks,

greg k-h
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