Commit d6f295e9 authored Nov 13, 2017 by Rasmus Villemoes Committed by David S. Miller Nov 14, 2017

net: core: maybe return -EEXIST in __dev_alloc_name



If we're given format string with no %d, -EEXIST is a saner error code.

Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

parent 93809105

net/core/dev.c

+1 −1

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		@@ -1106,7 +1106,7 @@ static int __dev_alloc_name(struct net net, const char name, char *buf)
		* when the name is long and there isn't enough space left
		* for the digits, or if all bits are used.
		*/
		return -ENFILE;
		return p ? -ENFILE : -EEXIST;
		}

		static int dev_alloc_name_ns(struct net *net,