From: "Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)" <alexander.le...@verizon.com> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 04:23:16 +0000
> ifr name is assumed to be a valid string by the kernel, but nothing > was forcing username to pass a valid string. > > In turn, this would cause panics as we tried to access the string > past it's valid memory. > > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.le...@verizon.com> Applied and queued up for -stable. dev_ifname() has the same bug, I'll post a patch for that.
