net-2.6 : V2 - fix dev_get_valid_name
the commit:
commit d90310243fd750240755e217c5faa13e24f41536
Author: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Date: Wed Nov 18 02:36:59 2009 +0000
net: device name allocation cleanups
introduced a bug when there is a hash collision making impossible
to rename a device with eth%d. This bug is very hard to reproduce
and appears rarely.
The problem is coming from we don't pass a temporary buffer to
__dev_alloc_name but 'dev->name' which is modified by the function.
A detailed explanation is here:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=127417784011987&w=2
Changelog:
V2 : replaced strings comparison by pointers comparison
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>
Reviewed-by: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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