From b4c2951a4833e66f1bbfe65ddcd4fdcdfafe5e8f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oliver Hartkopp Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2017 18:48:52 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] can: vxcan: improve handling of missing peer name attribute Picking up the patch from Serhey Popovych (commit 191cdb3822e5df6b3c8, "veth: Be more robust on network device creation when no attributes"). When the peer name attribute is not provided the former implementation tries to register the given device name twice ... which leads to -EEXIST. If only one device name is given apply an automatic generated and valid name for the peer. Cc: Serhey Popovych Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp Cc: linux-stable Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde --- drivers/net/can/vxcan.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/can/vxcan.c b/drivers/net/can/vxcan.c index 8404e8852a0f..b4c4a2c76437 100644 --- a/drivers/net/can/vxcan.c +++ b/drivers/net/can/vxcan.c @@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ static int vxcan_newlink(struct net *net, struct net_device *dev, tbp = peer_tb; } - if (tbp[IFLA_IFNAME]) { + if (ifmp && tbp[IFLA_IFNAME]) { nla_strlcpy(ifname, tbp[IFLA_IFNAME], IFNAMSIZ); name_assign_type = NET_NAME_USER; } else {