From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 05:33:38 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: net: handle errors from device_rename
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.26-rc4~91^2~21
X-Git-Url: http://pilppa.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=dcc997738e538919101d8756f19ca23110b25d8d;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git

net: handle errors from device_rename

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

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index a1607bc0cd4..ce88c0d3e35 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -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);