The patch titled rtnetlink: fix netdevice name corruption has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename is rtnetlink-fix-netdevice-name-corruption.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html