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-rw-r--r--net/core/dev.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index a1607bc0cd4..ce88c0d3e35 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -903,7 +903,11 @@ int dev_change_name(struct net_device *dev, char *newname)
strlcpy(dev->name, newname, IFNAMSIZ);
rollback:
- device_rename(&dev->dev, dev->name);
+ err = device_rename(&dev->dev, dev->name);
+ if (err) {
+ memcpy(dev->name, oldname, IFNAMSIZ);
+ return err;
+ }
write_lock_bh(&dev_base_lock);
hlist_del(&dev->name_hlist);