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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2018-01-09 18:37:00 +0300
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2018-01-09 18:37:00 +0300
commita0ce093180f2bbb832b3f5583adc640ad67ea568 (patch)
tree62c9aca5be3566ea4810e4584a02870de8b953f8 /net/core/dev.c
parentf4803f1b73f877a571be4c8e531dfcf190acc691 (diff)
parentef7f8cec80a0ba7bd00ece46844c8994117dc910 (diff)
downloadlinux-a0ce093180f2bbb832b3f5583adc640ad67ea568.tar.xz
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core/dev.c')
-rw-r--r--net/core/dev.c14
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index d7925ef8743d..5cb782f074d7 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -1146,7 +1146,19 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_alloc_name);
int dev_get_valid_name(struct net *net, struct net_device *dev,
const char *name)
{
- return dev_alloc_name_ns(net, dev, 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;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_get_valid_name);