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-rw-r--r--net/core/dev_ioctl.c19
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev_ioctl.c b/net/core/dev_ioctl.c
index 6cc0481faade..5b7d0e1d0664 100644
--- a/net/core/dev_ioctl.c
+++ b/net/core/dev_ioctl.c
@@ -19,9 +19,8 @@
static int dev_ifname(struct net *net, struct ifreq __user *arg)
{
- struct net_device *dev;
struct ifreq ifr;
- unsigned seq;
+ int error;
/*
* Fetch the caller's info block.
@@ -30,19 +29,9 @@ static int dev_ifname(struct net *net, struct ifreq __user *arg)
if (copy_from_user(&ifr, arg, sizeof(struct ifreq)))
return -EFAULT;
-retry:
- seq = read_seqcount_begin(&devnet_rename_seq);
- rcu_read_lock();
- dev = dev_get_by_index_rcu(net, ifr.ifr_ifindex);
- if (!dev) {
- rcu_read_unlock();
- return -ENODEV;
- }
-
- strcpy(ifr.ifr_name, dev->name);
- rcu_read_unlock();
- if (read_seqcount_retry(&devnet_rename_seq, seq))
- goto retry;
+ error = netdev_get_name(net, ifr.ifr_name, ifr.ifr_ifindex);
+ if (error)
+ return error;
if (copy_to_user(arg, &ifr, sizeof(struct ifreq)))
return -EFAULT;
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