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Commit dcc99773 authored by Stephen Hemminger's avatar Stephen Hemminger Committed by David S. Miller
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net: handle errors from device_rename 



device_rename can fail with -EEXIST or -ENOMEM, so handle any
problems.

Signed-off-by: default avatarStephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 8f40f672

net/core/dev.c

+5 −1
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@@ -903,7 +903,11 @@ int dev_change_name(struct net_device *dev, char *newname) 
		strlcpy(dev->name, newname, IFNAMSIZ);



rollback:

	device_rename(&dev->dev, dev->name);

	err = device_rename(&dev->dev, dev->name);

	if (err) {

		memcpy(dev->name, oldname, IFNAMSIZ);

		return err;

	}



	write_lock_bh(&dev_base_lock);

	hlist_del(&dev->name_hlist);