Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 17 Feb 2015 19:33:25 -0600 | From | Matthew Thode <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] colons are invalid characters in netdev names |
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On 02/17/2015 07:28 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 17:15:42 -0600 > Matthew Thode <mthode@mthode.org> wrote: > >> 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> > > What is the exact sequence that causes the problem? > SIOCSIFNAME already strips of colon. > > It strips the name one access, not creation. You can create a dummy device and not access it, escaping doesn't seem to help.
ip link add name foo:asdasd type dummy ip link del dev foo:asdasd # will not be deleted
-- Matthew Thode
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