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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)
commit2645da91080d914c8f12338e77c9cec541beb566
treea083ff1e4f31c60bd53c9c37086cd347478b2ad6
parent1f4d9a4b6add2d95f590bcf5cbaee9d7323280c9
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