The patch titled
rtnetlink: fix netdevice name corruption
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
rtnetlink-fix-netdevice-name-corruption.patch
See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find
out what to do about this
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Subject: rtnetlink: fix netdevice name corruption
From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx>
When changing a device by ifindex without including a IFLA_IFNAME attribute,
the ifname variable contains random garbage and is used to change the device
name.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
---
net/core/rtnetlink.c | 2 ++
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff -puN net/core/rtnetlink.c~rtnetlink-fix-netdevice-name-corruption net/core/rtnetlink.c
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c~rtnetlink-fix-netdevice-name-corruption
+++ a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -394,6 +394,8 @@ static int rtnl_setlink(struct sk_buff *
if (tb[IFLA_IFNAME])
nla_strlcpy(ifname, tb[IFLA_IFNAME], IFNAMSIZ);
+ else
+ ifname[0] = '\0';
err = -EINVAL;
ifm = nlmsg_data(nlh);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from kaber@xxxxxxxxx are
git-net.patch
rtnetlink-fix-netdevice-name-corruption.patch
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