Re: 2.4.13-ac5 && vtun not working

David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Mon, 29 Oct 2001 17:53:12 -0800 (PST)


From: Maksim Krasnyanskiy <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 17:48:35 -0800

>On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 02:17:40AM +0100, " Marc A. Lehmann " <pcg@goof.com> wrote:
>> a _lot_ of searching revealed this code fragment:
>
>In my usual attempt to generate more traffic, I forgot to mention that I
>found it in net/core/dev.c ;)
>
>(oh, and after reading the comments int hat file, I think that maybe tun.c
>simply shouldn't call dev_alloc_name...)

Hmm, let me check that.
I was under the assumption that it's dev.c bug :)

Basically, don't pass a string lack one "%d" into dev_alloc_name
because dev_alloc_name() runs sprintf on that string with an
integer argument.

Franks a lot,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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