Nick Orlov wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 11:29:39PM -0400, Nick Orlov wrote:
>
>>I would like to confirm that issue with netdevice name corruption
>>is still present in 2.6.18-rc6-mm1 and extremely easy to reproduce
>>(at least on my system) with 100% hit rate.
>>
>>All I have to do is 'sudo /etc/init.d/networking stop'. And here we go:
>>
>>Sep 8 22:50:11 nickolas kernel: [events/1:7]: Changing netdevice name from
>>[ath0] to [\200^C^Bб\206]
>>
>
>
> Confirmed: Patrick's patch fixes the issue for me.
> (http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=115777959918268&w=2)
Thanks Nick. Dave, please apply the attached patch to net-2.6.19, it
fixes the netdevice name corruption reported by multiple people.
[RTNETLINK]: Fix netdevice name corruption
When changing a device by ifindex without including a IFLA_IFNAME
attribute, the ifname variable contains random garbage and is used
to change the device name.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
commit bc3417f679c035e4296cd34f6a55d6b9215764fc
tree e43f52402d79560cbed73a769f4def3e761e7a03
parent 6ddbd02eb61532f9af4f28912a09717ab8c71d8a
author Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sat, 09 Sep 2006 16:18:12 +0200
committer Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sat, 09 Sep 2006 16:18:12 +0200
net/core/rtnetlink.c | 2 ++
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index 63b882a..d8e25e0 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -394,6 +394,8 @@ static int rtnl_setlink(struct sk_buff *
if (tb[IFLA_IFNAME])
nla_strlcpy(ifname, tb[IFLA_IFNAME], IFNAMSIZ);
+ else
+ ifname[0] = '\0';
err = -EINVAL;
ifm = nlmsg_data(nlh);
