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: v3.19.2~161
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=465146d28c3173d31229df1cf53a4696360a399d;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Fstable.git

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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 7fe82929f5094..4ff46f8054d41 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -945,7 +945,7 @@ bool dev_valid_name(const char *name)
 		return false;
 
 	while (*name) {
-		if (*name == '/' || isspace(*name))
+		if (*name == '/' || *name == ':' || isspace(*name))
 			return false;
 		name++;
 	}