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| author | Guillaume Nault <g.nault@alphalink.fr> | 2017-04-26 11:54:47 +0200 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2017-04-27 22:32:13 +0200 |
| commit | 1514dc857f8ebbeb44da09236efa133ed6e15615 (patch) | |
| tree | 770a7770095e9c198a3a643df197b41bbdb45e7c /net/l2tp/l2tp_eth.c | |
| parent | net: remove unnecessary carrier status check (diff) | |
| download | linux-1514dc857f8ebbeb44da09236efa133ed6e15615.tar.xz linux-1514dc857f8ebbeb44da09236efa133ed6e15615.zip | |
l2tp: remove useless device duplication test in l2tp_eth_create()
There's no need to verify that cfg->ifname is unique at this point.
register_netdev() will return -EEXIST if asked to create a device with
a name that's alrealy in use.
Signed-off-by: Guillaume Nault <g.nault@alphalink.fr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/l2tp/l2tp_eth.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/l2tp/l2tp_eth.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/net/l2tp/l2tp_eth.c b/net/l2tp/l2tp_eth.c index 59aba8aeac03..8b21af7321b9 100644 --- a/net/l2tp/l2tp_eth.c +++ b/net/l2tp/l2tp_eth.c @@ -280,12 +280,6 @@ static int l2tp_eth_create(struct net *net, u32 tunnel_id, u32 session_id, u32 p } if (cfg->ifname) { - dev = dev_get_by_name(net, cfg->ifname); - if (dev) { - dev_put(dev); - rc = -EEXIST; - goto out; - } strlcpy(name, cfg->ifname, IFNAMSIZ); name_assign_type = NET_NAME_USER; } else { |