Commit 70e1b14c authored by Jakub Kicinski's avatar Jakub Kicinski
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net: remove dev_valid_name() check from __dev_alloc_name() 



__dev_alloc_name() is only called by dev_prep_valid_name(),
which already checks that name is valid.

Reviewed-by: default avatarJiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231023152346.3639749-6-kuba@kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
parent 7ad17b04

net/core/dev.c

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@@ -1077,9 +1077,6 @@ static int __dev_alloc_name(struct net *net, const char *name, char *res) 
	struct net_device *d;

	char buf[IFNAMSIZ];



	if (!dev_valid_name(name))

		return -EINVAL;



	/* Verify the string as this thing may have come from the user.

	 * There must be one "%d" and no other "%" characters.

	 */