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| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/dev.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index f91abf80016..a39354ee143 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -1055,6 +1055,8 @@ rollback: */ int dev_set_alias(struct net_device *dev, const char *alias, size_t len) { + char *new_ifalias; + ASSERT_RTNL(); if (len >= IFALIASZ) @@ -1068,9 +1070,10 @@ int dev_set_alias(struct net_device *dev, const char *alias, size_t len) return 0; } - dev->ifalias = krealloc(dev->ifalias, len + 1, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!dev->ifalias) + new_ifalias = krealloc(dev->ifalias, len + 1, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!new_ifalias) return -ENOMEM; + dev->ifalias = new_ifalias; strlcpy(dev->ifalias, alias, len+1); return len; |