Using either of these is going to greatly confuse userspace, as they are not valid symlink names and so creating the usual /dev/mapper/NAME symlink will not be possible. As creating a device with either of these names is almost certainly a userspace bug, just error out. Signed-off-by: Demi Marie Obenour <demi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c b/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c index 5b647ab044e44b0c9d0961b5a336b41f50408f88..12be95ee20778b9acd3ea0d98f160a7409028afc 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c @@ -771,8 +771,10 @@ static int check_name(const char *name) return -EINVAL; } - if (strcmp(name, DM_CONTROL_NODE) == 0) { - DMERR("device name cannot be \"%s\"", DM_CONTROL_NODE); + if (strcmp(name, DM_CONTROL_NODE) == 0 || + strcmp(name, ".") == 0 || + strcmp(name, "..") == 0) { + DMERR("device name cannot be \"%s\", \".\", or \"..\"", DM_CONTROL_NODE); return -EINVAL; } -- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers) Invisible Things Lab -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel