From: Matthew Thode <mthode@mthode.org>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 00:31:57 +0000 (-0600)
Subject: net: reject creation of netdev names with colons
X-Git-Tag: v4.0-rc3~25^2~65
X-Git-Url: https://asedeno.scripts.mit.edu/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a4176a9391868bfa87705bcd2e3b49e9b9dd2996;p=linux.git

net: reject creation of netdev names with colons

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>
---

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 8f9710c62e20..962ee9d71964 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -946,7 +946,7 @@ bool dev_valid_name(const char *name)
 		return false;
 
 	while (*name) {
-		if (*name == '/' || isspace(*name))
+		if (*name == '/' || *name == ':' || isspace(*name))
 			return false;
 		name++;
 	}