From: Johannes Berg <johannes.b...@intel.com>
This reverts commit d6f295e9def0; some userspace (in the case
we noticed it's wpa_supplicant), is relying on the current
error code to determine that a fixed name interface already
exists.
Reported-by: Jouni Malinen <j...@w1.fi>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.b...@intel.com>
---
net/core/dev.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 07ed21d64f92..f47e96b62308 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -1106,7 +1106,7 @@ static int __dev_alloc_name(struct net *net, const char
*name, char *buf)
* when the name is long and there isn't enough space left
* for the digits, or if all bits are used.
*/
- return p ? -ENFILE : -EEXIST;
+ return -ENFILE;
}
static int dev_alloc_name_ns(struct net *net,
--
2.14.2
