ipv6: fail early when creating netdev named all or default
authorWANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Fri, 25 Jul 2014 22:25:09 +0000 (15:25 -0700)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Tue, 29 Jul 2014 18:43:50 +0000 (11:43 -0700)
commita317a2f19da7d0af1f068cf4d3ae80cdd73643b7
treea083ff1e4f31c60bd53c9c37086cd347478b2ad6
parent20e61da7ffcfd84a1b6f797e745608572e5bc218
ipv6: fail early when creating netdev named all or default

We create a proc dir for each network device, this will cause
conflicts when the devices have name "all" or "default".

Rather than emitting an ugly kernel warning, we could just
fail earlier by checking the device name.

Reported-by: Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chazelas@gmail.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/ipv6/addrconf.c