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From: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@bougret.hpl.hp.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
	jgarzik@pobox.com, netdev@oss.sgi.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.X] SIOCSIFNAME wilcard suppor & name validation
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 16:17:12 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040115001712.GA24056@bougret.hpl.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040114161324.61b7198f.shemminger@osdl.org>

On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 04:13:24PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Bug: dev_alloc_name returns the number of the slot used, so comparison needs
> to be < 0.
> 
> diff -Nru a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
> --- a/net/core/dev.c	Wed Jan 14 16:09:02 2004
> +++ b/net/core/dev.c	Wed Jan 14 16:09:02 2004
> @@ -718,7 +718,7 @@
>  
>  	if (strchr(newname, '%')) {
>  		int err = dev_alloc_name(dev, newname);
> -		if (err)
> +		if (err < 0)
>  			return err;
>  		strcpy(newname, dev->name);
>  	}

	Doh ! I feel stupid.

	Jean

  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-15  0:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-12 23:43 [PATCH 2.6.X] SIOCSIFNAME wilcard support Jean Tourrilhes
2004-01-13 22:22 ` [PATCH 2.6.X] SIOCSIFNAME wilcard suppor & name validation Stephen Hemminger
2004-01-13 22:27   ` Jean Tourrilhes
2004-01-14  0:21   ` David S. Miller
2004-01-15  0:13     ` Stephen Hemminger
2004-01-15  0:17       ` Jean Tourrilhes [this message]
2004-01-15  8:49       ` David S. Miller

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