Re: [PATCH] support for large number of network devices.

[Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx>]

This should make it match the existing semantics more exactly.
It will skip the false positive matchs from sscanf trailing chars
or blanks.

diff -Nru a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
--- a/net/core/dev.c    Wed Jan 14 16:24:08 2004
+++ b/net/core/dev.c    Wed Jan 14 16:24:08 2004
@@ -654,7 +654,7 @@
        const int max_netdevices = 8*PAGE_SIZE;
        long *inuse;
        struct net_device *d;
-       char buf[IFNAMSIZ];
+       char buf[32];
 
        /*
         * Verify the string as this thing may have come from
@@ -671,12 +671,14 @@
                return -ENOMEM;
 
        for (d = dev_base; d; d = d->next) {
-               if (sscanf(d->name, name, &i)) {
-                       if (i < 0 || i >= max_netdevices)
-                               continue;
+               if (!sscanf(d->name, name, &i))
+                       continue;
+               if (i < 0 || i >= max_netdevices)
+                       continue;
 
+               snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), name, i);
+               if (!strncmp(buf, d->name, IFNAMSIZ))
                        set_bit(i, inuse);
-               }
        }
 
        i = find_first_zero_bit(inuse, max_netdevices);
@@ -684,7 +686,7 @@
        snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), name, i);
 
        if (!__dev_get_by_name(buf)) {
-               strcpy(dev->name, buf);
+               strlcpy(dev->name, buf, IFNAMSIZ);
                return i;
        }