From c8d90dca3211966ba5189e0f3d4bccd558d9ae08 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 03:53:42 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] [NET] dev_change_name: ignore changes to same name
Prevent error/backtrace from dev_rename() when changing
name of network device to the same name. This is a common
situation with udev and other scripts that bind addr to device.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---
net/core/dev.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index f1647d7dd14b..ddfef3b45bab 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -883,6 +883,9 @@ int dev_change_name(struct net_device *dev, char *newname)
if (!dev_valid_name(newname))
return -EINVAL;
+ if (strncmp(newname, dev->name, IFNAMSIZ) == 0)
+ return 0;
+
memcpy(oldname, dev->name, IFNAMSIZ);
if (strchr(newname, '%')) {
--
2.20.1