Hello:
This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (refs/heads/master):
On Sat, 7 Aug 2021 15:27:03 +0200 you wrote:
> IFLA_IFNAME is nul-term string which means that IFLA_IFNAME buffer can be
> larger than length of string which contains.
>
> Function __rtnl_newlink() generates new own ifname if either IFLA_IFNAME
> was not specified at all or userspace passed empty nul-term string.
>
> It is expected that if userspace does not specify ifname for new ppp netdev
> then kernel generates one in format "ppp<id>" where id matches to the ppp
> unit id which can be later obtained by PPPIOCGUNIT ioctl.
>
> [...]
Here is the summary with links:
- ppp: Fix generating ifname when empty IFLA_IFNAME is specified
https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/2459dcb96bcb
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