Revert "tun: call dev_get_valid_name() before register_netdevice()"

This reverts commit 0ad646c81b.

As noticed by Jakub, this is no longer needed after
commit 11fc7d5a0a ("tun: fix memory leak in error path")

This no longer exports dev_get_valid_name() for the exclusive
use of tun driver.

Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
This commit is contained in:
Eric Dumazet
2019-10-08 14:20:34 -07:00
committed by Jakub Kicinski
parent 6ea67769ff
commit bacb7e1855
3 changed files with 2 additions and 9 deletions

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@@ -2788,9 +2788,6 @@ static int tun_set_iff(struct net *net, struct file *file, struct ifreq *ifr)
if (!dev)
return -ENOMEM;
err = dev_get_valid_name(net, dev, name);
if (err < 0)
goto err_free_dev;
dev_net_set(dev, net);
dev->rtnl_link_ops = &tun_link_ops;