We currently only exclude non-sysfs-friendly names via
dev_get_valid_name; there doesn't seem to be a reason to allow such
names when we're called via dev_alloc_name.
This does duplicate the dev_valid_name check in the dev_get_valid_name()
case; we'll fix that shortly.
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <li...@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
---
net/core/dev.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 14541b7a3195..c0a92cf27566 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -1062,6 +1062,9 @@ static int __dev_alloc_name(struct net *net, const char
*name, char *buf)
unsigned long *inuse;
struct net_device *d;
+ if (!dev_valid_name(name))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
p = strchr(name, '%');
if (p) {
/*
--
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