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authorTom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>2014-07-14 16:37:23 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-07-15 16:12:01 -0700
commit238fa3623a5709d29673ed78ff8e714d040fbb89 (patch)
treefebee5d08cba4e04e37cdc9cb1cbf57abbbfdc84 /net/core
parent685343fc3ba61a1f6eef361b786601123db16c28 (diff)
net: set name assign type for renamed devices
Based on a patch from David Herrmann. This is the only place devices can be renamed. v9: restore revers-christmas-tree order of local variables Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no> Reviewed-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core')
-rw-r--r--net/core/dev.c7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 6e2a2cd82321..38793fb84a35 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -1082,6 +1082,7 @@ static int dev_get_valid_name(struct net *net,
*/
int dev_change_name(struct net_device *dev, const char *newname)
{
+ unsigned char old_assign_type;
char oldname[IFNAMSIZ];
int err = 0;
int ret;
@@ -1109,10 +1110,14 @@ int dev_change_name(struct net_device *dev, const char *newname)
return err;
}
+ old_assign_type = dev->name_assign_type;
+ dev->name_assign_type = NET_NAME_RENAMED;
+
rollback:
ret = device_rename(&dev->dev, dev->name);
if (ret) {
memcpy(dev->name, oldname, IFNAMSIZ);
+ dev->name_assign_type = old_assign_type;
write_seqcount_end(&devnet_rename_seq);
return ret;
}
@@ -1141,6 +1146,8 @@ rollback:
write_seqcount_begin(&devnet_rename_seq);
memcpy(dev->name, oldname, IFNAMSIZ);
memcpy(oldname, newname, IFNAMSIZ);
+ dev->name_assign_type = old_assign_type;
+ old_assign_type = NET_NAME_RENAMED;
goto rollback;
} else {
pr_err("%s: name change rollback failed: %d\n",