[PATCH] colons are invalid characters in netdev names
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From: Matthew Thode <hidden>
Date: 2015-02-17 23:22:20
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networking [general], the rest · Maintainers:
"David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
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 <redacted> --- 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) {
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