Commit 0c3a8f8b authored Jul 25, 2017 by Matthias Kaehlcke Committed by David S. Miller Jul 26, 2017

netpoll: Fix device name check in netpoll_setup()



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>

parent d94708a5

net/core/netpoll.c

+1 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -666,7 +666,7 @@ int netpoll_setup(struct netpoll *np)
		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);
		}

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