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| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/dev.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index a1607bc0cd4c..ce88c0d3e354 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); |