From a4176a9391868bfa87705bcd2e3b49e9b9dd2996 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Thode <mthode@mthode.org>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 18:31:57 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] 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>
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