[PATCH 3.16.y-ckt 019/165] net: reject creation of netdev names with colons

[Luis Henriques]

3.16.7-ckt9 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Matthew Thode <mthode at mthode.org>

commit a4176a9391868bfa87705bcd2e3b49e9b9dd2996 upstream.

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 at mthode.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 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 efcc7f4b4fc7..58bf1016a521 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -940,7 +940,7 @@ bool dev_valid_name(const char *name)
 		return false;
 
 	while (*name) {
-		if (*name == '/' || isspace(*name))
+		if (*name == '/' || *name == ':' || isspace(*name))
 			return false;
 		name++;
 	}