From 96ca4a2cc1454cf633a1e0796b7ef39d937b87ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oliver Hartkopp Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:23:19 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] net: remove ifalias on empty given alias This patch removes the potentially allocated ifalias when the (new) given alias is empty. E.g. when setting echo "" > /sys/class/net/eth0/ifalias Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/core/dev.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index e9139053399..a90737fe247 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -967,6 +967,14 @@ int dev_set_alias(struct net_device *dev, const char *alias, size_t len) if (len >= IFALIASZ) return -EINVAL; + if (!len) { + if (dev->ifalias) { + kfree(dev->ifalias); + dev->ifalias = NULL; + } + return 0; + } + dev->ifalias = krealloc(dev->ifalias, len+1, GFP_KERNEL); if (!dev->ifalias) return -ENOMEM; -- 2.41.1