@@ -1812,6 +1812,7 @@ static int rtnl_fill_ifinfo(struct sk_buff *skb,
u32 event, int *new_nsid, int new_ifindex,
int tgt_netnsid, gfp_t gfp)
{
+ char devname[IFNAMSIZ];
struct ifinfomsg *ifm;
struct nlmsghdr *nlh;
struct Qdisc *qdisc;
@@ -1832,8 +1833,11 @@ static int rtnl_fill_ifinfo(struct sk_buff *skb,
if (tgt_netnsid >= 0 && nla_put_s32(skb, IFLA_TARGET_NETNSID, tgt_netnsid))
goto nla_put_failure;
- if (nla_put_string(skb, IFLA_IFNAME, dev->name) ||
- nla_put_u32(skb, IFLA_TXQLEN, dev->tx_queue_len) ||
+ netdev_copy_name(dev, devname);
+ if (nla_put_string(skb, IFLA_IFNAME, devname))
+ goto nla_put_failure;
+
+ if (nla_put_u32(skb, IFLA_TXQLEN, dev->tx_queue_len) ||
nla_put_u8(skb, IFLA_OPERSTATE,
netif_running(dev) ? dev->operstate : IF_OPER_DOWN) ||
nla_put_u8(skb, IFLA_LINKMODE, dev->link_mode) ||
We can use netdev_copy_name() to no longer rely on RTNL to fetch dev->name. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> --- net/core/rtnetlink.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)