net: reject creation of netdev names with colons
authorMatthew Thode <mthode@mthode.org>
Wed, 18 Feb 2015 00:31:57 +0000 (18:31 -0600)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Sat, 9 May 2015 22:16:37 +0000 (23:16 +0100)
commitd501ebeb7da7531e92e3c8d194730341c314ff2d
treeb9f9669a4706dd155feb1065960a207fb3e8556f
parent9405be73262273a6904688fb2f1e60a13117cf1b
net: reject creation of netdev names with colons

[ Upstream commit a4176a9391868bfa87705bcd2e3b49e9b9dd2996 ]

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>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
net/core/dev.c