From: Pavel Emelyanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:44:33 +0300
> Four tunnel drivers (ip_gre, ipip, ip6_tunnel and sit) can > receive a pre-defined name for a device from the userspace. > Since these drivers call the register_netdevice() (rtnl_lock, > is held), which does _not_ generate the device's name, this > name may contain a '%' character. > > Not sure how bad is this to have a device with a '%' in its > name, but all the other places either use the register_netdev(), > which call the dev_alloc_name(), or explicitly call the > dev_alloc_name() before registering, i.e. do not allow for > such names. > > This had to be prior to the commit 34cc7b, but I forgot to > number the patches and this one got lost, sorry. > > Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Applied, thanks Pavel. I've already sent a pull request to Linus an hour ago, so this will get in next time around. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@openvz.org https://openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
