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authorOliver Hartkopp <oliver@hartkopp.net>2008-09-23 21:23:19 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-09-23 21:23:19 -0700
commit96ca4a2cc1454cf633a1e0796b7ef39d937b87ec (patch)
tree9031c5040ab0dadb3f2c5eb39ec9a4ffd1b53c2d
parentd87798450a7635ab1bcc80271a13ce4a53b016a9 (diff)
downloadlinux-96ca4a2cc1454cf633a1e0796b7ef39d937b87ec.tar.gz
net: remove ifalias on empty given alias
This patch removes the potentially allocated ifalias when the (new) given alias is empty.

E.g. when setting

echo "" > /sys/class/net/eth0/ifalias

Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <oliver@hartkopp.net>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
-rw-r--r--net/core/dev.c8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index e91390533999..a90737fe2472 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -967,6 +967,14 @@ int dev_set_alias(struct net_device *dev, const char *alias, size_t len)
 	if (len >= IFALIASZ)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
+	if (!len) {
+		if (dev->ifalias) {
+			kfree(dev->ifalias);
+			dev->ifalias = NULL;
+		}
+		return 0;
+	}
+
 	dev->ifalias = krealloc(dev->ifalias, len+1, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!dev->ifalias)
 		return -ENOMEM;