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..efbad386 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++;
}
--
2.0.5
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