Commit 7af12cba authored Sep 30, 2019 by Jiri Pirko Committed by David S. Miller Oct 01, 2019

net: rtnetlink: unify the code in __rtnl_newlink get dev with the rest



__rtnl_newlink() code flow is a bit different around tb[IFLA_IFNAME]
processing comparing to the other places. Change that to be unified with
the rest.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

parent 88f4fb0c

net/core/rtnetlink.c

+4 −6

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -3080,12 +3080,10 @@ replay:
		ifm = nlmsg_data(nlh);
		if (ifm->ifi_index > 0)
		dev = __dev_get_by_index(net, ifm->ifi_index);
		else {
		if (ifname[0])
		else if (tb[IFLA_IFNAME])
		dev = __dev_get_by_name(net, ifname);
		else
		dev = NULL;
		}

		if (dev) {
		master_dev = netdev_master_upper_dev_get(dev);

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