net: reject creation of netdev names with colons

[ 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@mthode.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index c310440309bb6ec5c833b704e4d1d413f8b8cb51..aeca8dd88b2af887bc944bfd5198c621f3eeca5d 100644 (file)
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -927,7 +927,7 @@ bool dev_valid_name(const char *name)
                return false;
 
        while (*name) {
-               if (*name == '/' || isspace(*name))
+               if (*name == '/' || *name == ':' || isspace(*name))
                        return false;
                name++;
        }