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 <[email protected]> know about it.


>From foo@baz Wed Mar 11 11:44:33 CET 2015
From: Matthew Thode <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 18:31:57 -0600
Subject: net: reject creation of netdev names with colons

From: Matthew Thode <[email protected]>

[ 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 <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
 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 [email protected] are

queue-3.19/net-reject-creation-of-netdev-names-with-colons.patch
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