[dm-devel] [PATCH 6/6] device-mapper: "." and ".." are not valid symlink names

[Demi Marie Obenour]

Using either of these is going to greatly confuse userspace, as they are
not valid symlink names and so creating the usual /dev/mapper/NAME
symlink will not be possible.  As creating a device with either of these
names is almost certainly a userspace bug, just error out.

Signed-off-by: Demi Marie Obenour <demi at invisiblethingslab.com>
---
 drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c b/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c
index b12592bcb4b2b8513f5da6208fb545203534d7ff..adf0c4becc743e4ad59e1d6b0ef108ddd56f207d 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c
@@ -771,8 +771,10 @@ static int check_name(const char *name)
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
-	if (strcmp(name, DM_CONTROL_NODE) == 0) {
-		DMERR("device name cannot be \"%s\"", DM_CONTROL_NODE);
+	if (strcmp(name, DM_CONTROL_NODE) == 0 ||
+	    strcmp(name, ".") == 0 ||
+	    strcmp(name, "..") == 0) {
+		DMERR("device name cannot be \"%s\", \".\", or \"..\"", DM_CONTROL_NODE);
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
-- 
Sincerely,
Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers)
Invisible Things Lab