This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net: reject creation of netdev names with colons
to the 3.19-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
net-reject-creation-of-netdev-names-with-colons.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.19 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Wed Mar 11 11:44:33 CET 2015
From: Matthew Thode <mthode@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 18:31:57 -0600
Subject: net: reject creation of netdev names with colons
From: Matthew Thode <mthode@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ 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@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/core/dev.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- 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++;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mthode@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.19/net-reject-creation-of-netdev-names-with-colons.patch
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