Commit d03eb978 authored by Antoine Tenart's avatar Antoine Tenart Committed by David S. Miller
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ppp: use the correct function to check if a netdev name is in use 



A new helper to detect if a net device name is in use was added. Use it
here as the return reference from __dev_get_by_name was discarded.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAntoine Tenart <atenart@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent caa9b35f

drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c

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@@ -1161,7 +1161,7 @@ static int ppp_unit_register(struct ppp *ppp, int unit, bool ifname_is_set) 
		if (!ifname_is_set) {

			while (1) {

				snprintf(ppp->dev->name, IFNAMSIZ, "ppp%i", ret);

				if (!__dev_get_by_name(ppp->ppp_net, ppp->dev->name))

				if (!netdev_name_in_use(ppp->ppp_net, ppp->dev->name))

					break;

				unit_put(&pn->units_idr, ret);

				ret = unit_get(&pn->units_idr, ppp, ret + 1);