ipv4: fail early when creating netdev named all or default
authorWANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Fri, 25 Jul 2014 22:25:08 +0000 (15:25 -0700)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Tue, 29 Jul 2014 18:43:50 +0000 (11:43 -0700)
We create a proc dir for each network device, this will cause
conflicts when the devices have name "all" or "default".

Rather than emitting an ugly kernel warning, we could just
fail earlier by checking the device name.

Reported-by: Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chazelas@gmail.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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