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Diffstat (limited to 'net/core/dev.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/dev.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index 01ee854454a8..0e0ba36eeac9 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); |