[NET]: Disallow whitespace in network device names.
It causes way too much trouble and confusion in userspace.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 9fe96cd..d4a1ec3 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -116,6 +116,7 @@
#include <linux/audit.h>
#include <linux/dmaengine.h>
#include <linux/err.h>
+#include <linux/ctype.h>
/*
* The list of packet types we will receive (as opposed to discard)
@@ -632,14 +633,22 @@
* @name: name string
*
* Network device names need to be valid file names to
- * to allow sysfs to work
+ * to allow sysfs to work. We also disallow any kind of
+ * whitespace.
*/
int dev_valid_name(const char *name)
{
- return !(*name == '\0'
- || !strcmp(name, ".")
- || !strcmp(name, "..")
- || strchr(name, '/'));
+ if (*name == '\0')
+ return 0;
+ if (!strcmp(name, ".") || !strcmp(name, ".."))
+ return 0;
+
+ while (*name) {
+ if (*name == '/' || isspace(*name))
+ return 0;
+ name++;
+ }
+ return 1;
}
/**