Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | From | Matthew Thode <> | Subject | [PATCH] colons are invalid characters in netdev names | Date | Tue, 17 Feb 2015 17:15:42 -0600 |
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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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