Code: static int dev_get_valid_name(struct net *net,
			      struct net_device *dev,
			      const char *name)
 {
 	BUG_ON(!net);
 
	if (!dev_valid_name(name))
		return -EINVAL;

	if (strchr(name, '%'))
		return dev_alloc_name_ns(net, dev, name);
	else if (__dev_get_by_name(net, name))
		return -EEXIST;
	else if (dev->name != name)
		strlcpy(dev->name, name, IFNAMSIZ);
 
 	return 0;
 }

Vulnerability Type: DoS 
CWE ID: CWE-476
Summary: In the tun subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.13.14, dev_get_valid_name is not called before register_netdevice. This allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and panic) via an ioctl(TUNSETIFF) call with a dev name containing a / character. This is similar to CVE-2013-4343.
Commit Message: tun: call dev_get_valid_name() before register_netdevice()

register_netdevice() could fail early when we have an invalid
dev name, in which case ->ndo_uninit() is not called. For tun
device, this is a problem because a timer etc. are already
initialized and it expects ->ndo_uninit() to clean them up.

We could move these initializations into a ->ndo_init() so
that register_netdevice() knows better, however this is still
complicated due to the logic in tun_detach().

Therefore, I choose to just call dev_get_valid_name() before
register_netdevice(), which is quicker and much easier to audit.
And for this specific case, it is already enough.

Fixes: 96442e42429e ("tuntap: choose the txq based on rxq")
Reported-by: Dmitry Alexeev <avekceeb@gmail.com>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>