Ensure that the provided netdev name is not one of its aliases to
prevent unnecessary creation and destruction of the vport by
ovs-vswitchd.
Signed-off-by: Jun Gu <jun...@easystack.cn>
Acked-by: Eelco Chaudron <echau...@redhat.com>
---
net/openvswitch/vport-netdev.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/openvswitch/vport-netdev.c b/net/openvswitch/vport-netdev.c
index 903537a5da22..618edc346c0f 100644
--- a/net/openvswitch/vport-netdev.c
+++ b/net/openvswitch/vport-netdev.c
@@ -78,7 +78,10 @@ struct vport *ovs_netdev_link(struct vport *vport, const
char *name)
int err;
vport->dev = dev_get_by_name(ovs_dp_get_net(vport->dp), name);
- if (!vport->dev) {
+ /* Ensure that the device exists and that the provided
+ * name is not one of its aliases.
+ */
+ if (!vport->dev || strcmp(name, ovs_vport_name(vport))) {
err = -ENODEV;
goto error_free_vport;
}
--
2.25.1
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