From 92845ffd2a221f9f90b064ac55bb010bf27a193f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 23:33:56 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] netdev: change name dropping error codes If changename notifier returns an error code, it gets incorrectly cleared during rollback so the error is never returned to the user. Found while testing similar code for MTU changes. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/core/dev.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index 868ec0b..b8a4fd08 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -924,10 +924,10 @@ int dev_change_name(struct net_device *dev, const char *newname) strlcpy(dev->name, newname, IFNAMSIZ); rollback: - err = device_rename(&dev->dev, dev->name); - if (err) { + ret = device_rename(&dev->dev, dev->name); + if (ret) { memcpy(dev->name, oldname, IFNAMSIZ); - return err; + return ret; } write_lock_bh(&dev_base_lock); -- 2.7.4