Apparently netpoll_setup() assumes that netpoll.dev_name is a pointer
when checking if the device name is set:
if (np->dev_name) {
...
However the field is a character array, therefore the condition always
yields true. Check instead whether the first byte of the array has a
non-zero value.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
int err;
rtnl_lock();
- if (np->dev_name) {
+ if (np->dev_name[0]) {
struct net *net = current->nsproxy->net_ns;
ndev = __dev_get_by_name(net, np->dev_name);
}