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Subject[PATCH 3.13.y-ckt 059/156] net: reject creation of netdev names with colons
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3.13.11-ckt19 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Matthew Thode <mthode@mthode.org>

[ 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: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
---
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 ce649f2..7fb4317 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -936,7 +936,7 @@ bool dev_valid_name(const char *name)
return false;

while (*name) {
- if (*name == '/' || isspace(*name))
+ if (*name == '/' || *name == ':' || isspace(*name))
return false;
name++;
}
--
1.9.1


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