On 18.02.2015 00:15, Matthew Thode 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 <mth...@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) {
>
Hi,
that check should be done in the loop below, shouldn't it?
Regards,
Lino
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