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)
commit20e61da7ffcfd84a1b6f797e745608572e5bc218
tree19738d56563acf91956bb2a0b44de9ff2e1640cd
parent9d7e3ea73c6be20538a69c14ab8bfb3b36f8d1a8
ipv4: fail early when creating netdev named all or default

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>
include/net/ip.h
net/ipv4/devinet.c