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        Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.4 17/79] net: propagate dev_get_valid_name return code
Date:   Thu, 23 Aug 2018 09:52:53 +0200
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4.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Li RongQing <lirongqing@baidu.com>

[ Upstream commit 7892bd081045222b9e4027fec279a28d6fe7aa66 ]

if dev_get_valid_name failed, propagate its return code

and remove the setting err to ENODEV, it will be set to
0 again before dev_change_net_namespace exits.

Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <lirongqing@baidu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 net/core/dev.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -7420,7 +7420,8 @@ int dev_change_net_namespace(struct net_
 		/* We get here if we can't use the current device name */
 		if (!pat)
 			goto out;
-		if (dev_get_valid_name(net, dev, pat) < 0)
+		err = dev_get_valid_name(net, dev, pat);
+		if (err < 0)
 			goto out;
 	}
 
@@ -7432,7 +7433,6 @@ int dev_change_net_namespace(struct net_
 	dev_close(dev);
 
 	/* And unlink it from device chain */
-	err = -ENODEV;
 	unlist_netdevice(dev);
 
 	synchronize_net();