From a4176a9391868bfa87705bcd2e3b49e9b9dd2996 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Thode <mthode@mthode.org>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 18:31:57 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] net: reject creation of netdev names with colons

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@mthode.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---
 net/core/dev.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 8f9710c62e20..962ee9d71964 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -946,7 +946,7 @@ bool dev_valid_name(const char *name)
 		return false;
 
 	while (*name) {
-		if (*name == '/' || isspace(*name))
+		if (*name == '/' || *name == ':' || isspace(*name))
 			return false;
 		name++;
 	}
-- 
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