netdev - Re: [Patch net-next v2 0/3] net: forbid net devices named "all" "default" or "config"

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Date:	Tue, 29 Jul 2014 11:44:14 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	xiyou.wangcong@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, stephane.chazelas@...il.com,
	f.fainelli@...il.com
Subject: Re: [Patch net-next v2 0/3] net: forbid net devices named "all"
 "default" or "config"

From: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 15:25:07 -0700

> /proc/sys/net/ipv[46]/conf/<dev> could conflict with
> /proc/sys/net/ipv[46]/conf/(all|default). And /proc/net/vlan/<dev>
> could conflict with /proc/net/vlan/config. Besides kernel warnings,
> undefined behavior such as duplicated proc files also appears, therefore
> we should forbid these names.
> 
> v2: introduce a helper function, suggested by Florian 
>     fix error handling for ipv6_add_dev() in addrconf_init()

Series applied, thank you.
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