Re: [PATCH v2] core: dev: don't call BUG() on bad input

[Alexey Dobriyan]

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> alloc_netdev() may be called with too long name (more that IFNAMSIZ bytes).
> Currently this leads to BUG().  Other insane inputs (bad txqs, rxqs) and
> even OOM don't lead to BUG().  Made alloc_netdev() return NULL, like on
> other errors.

> --- a/net/core/dev.c
> +++ b/net/core/dev.c
> @@ -5761,7 +5761,10 @@ struct net_device *alloc_netdev_mqs(int sizeof_priv, const char *name,
>        size_t alloc_size;
>        struct net_device *p;
>
> -       BUG_ON(strlen(name) >= sizeof(dev->name));
> +       if (strnlen(name, sizeof(dev->name)) >= sizeof(dev->name)) {
> +               pr_err("alloc_netdev: Too long device name\n");
> +               return NULL;
> +       }

Netdevice name isn't some random junk you get from userspace, so BUG is fine.
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