From: Matthew Thode <mthode@mthode.org>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 00:31:57 +0000 (-0600)
Subject: net: reject creation of netdev names with colons
X-Git-Tag: v3.2.69~27
X-Git-Url: https://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=pandora-kernel.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=d501ebeb7da7531e92e3c8d194730341c314ff2d

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>
---

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 81e5f559eeab..1c0d862b0b12 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -859,7 +859,7 @@ int dev_valid_name(const char *name)
 		return 0;
 
 	while (*name) {
-		if (*name == '/' || isspace(*name))
+		if (*name == '/' || *name == ':' || isspace(*name))
 			return 0;
 		name++;
 	}