From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932977AbbCPOUB (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Mar 2015 10:20:01 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:55408 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932955AbbCPOT4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Mar 2015 10:19:56 -0400 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Matthew Thode , "David S. Miller" Subject: [PATCH 3.14 10/96] net: reject creation of netdev names with colons Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 15:08:41 +0100 Message-Id: <20150316140855.647784204@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.3.3 In-Reply-To: <20150316140855.186617380@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20150316140855.186617380@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.64 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Matthew Thode [ 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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- net/core/dev.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -940,7 +940,7 @@ bool dev_valid_name(const char *name) return false; while (*name) { - if (*name == '/' || isspace(*name)) + if (*name == '/' || *name == ':' || isspace(*name)) return false; name++; }