netdev - Re: [PATCH 03/12] Prevent renaming interfaces to empty string.

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Date:	Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:07:43 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Andreas Henriksson <andreas@...al.se>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Alexander Wirt <formorer@...ian.org>,
	Andreas Henriksson <andreas@...al.se>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/12] Prevent renaming interfaces to empty string.

On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:56:38 +0200
Andreas Henriksson <andreas@...al.se> wrote:

> From: Alexander Wirt <formorer@...ian.org>
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@...al.se>
> ---
>  ip/iplink.c |    4 ++++
>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/ip/iplink.c b/ip/iplink.c
> index 4060845..da1f64e 100644
> --- a/ip/iplink.c
> +++ b/ip/iplink.c
> @@ -670,6 +670,10 @@ static int do_set(int argc, char **argv)
>  	}
>  
>  	if (newname && strcmp(dev, newname)) {
> +		if (strlen(newname) == 0) {
> +		    printf("\"\" is not valid device identifier\n");
> +		    return -1;
> +		}
>  		if (do_changename(dev, newname) < 0)
>  			return -1;
>  		dev = newname;

The kernel should already be preventing this?

-- 
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
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