Commit 6ebf476f authored by Randy Dunlap's avatar Randy Dunlap Committed by David S. Miller

[NET]: Grab RTNL semaphore in init_netdev() if we call dev_alloc_name().

parent d8c3d545
......@@ -148,11 +148,14 @@ static struct net_device *init_netdev(struct net_device *dev, int sizeof_priv,
if (dev->name[0] == '\0' || dev->name[0] == ' ') {
strcpy(dev->name, mask);
rtnl_lock();
if (dev_alloc_name(dev, mask)<0) {
rtnl_unlock();
if (new_device)
kfree(dev);
return NULL;
}
rtnl_unlock();
}
netdev_boot_setup_check(dev);
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