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-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c21
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c b/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c
index 8faf4488340d..c6e067aae955 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ static struct channel *ppp_find_channel(struct ppp_net *pn, int unit);
static int ppp_connect_channel(struct channel *pch, int unit);
static int ppp_disconnect_channel(struct channel *pch);
static void ppp_destroy_channel(struct channel *pch);
-static int unit_get(struct idr *p, void *ptr);
+static int unit_get(struct idr *p, void *ptr, int min);
static int unit_set(struct idr *p, void *ptr, int n);
static void unit_put(struct idr *p, int n);
static void *unit_find(struct idr *p, int n);
@@ -977,9 +977,20 @@ static int ppp_unit_register(struct ppp *ppp, int unit, bool ifname_is_set)
mutex_lock(&pn->all_ppp_mutex);
if (unit < 0) {
- ret = unit_get(&pn->units_idr, ppp);
+ ret = unit_get(&pn->units_idr, ppp, 0);
if (ret < 0)
goto err;
+ 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))
+ break;
+ unit_put(&pn->units_idr, ret);
+ ret = unit_get(&pn->units_idr, ppp, ret + 1);
+ if (ret < 0)
+ goto err;
+ }
+ }
} else {
/* Caller asked for a specific unit number. Fail with -EEXIST
* if unavailable. For backward compatibility, return -EEXIST
@@ -1128,7 +1139,7 @@ static int ppp_nl_newlink(struct net *src_net, struct net_device *dev,
* the PPP unit identifer as suffix (i.e. ppp<unit_id>). This allows
* userspace to infer the device name using to the PPPIOCGUNIT ioctl.
*/
- if (!tb[IFLA_IFNAME])
+ if (!tb[IFLA_IFNAME] || !nla_len(tb[IFLA_IFNAME]) || !*(char *)nla_data(tb[IFLA_IFNAME]))
conf.ifname_is_set = false;
err = ppp_dev_configure(src_net, dev, &conf);
@@ -3266,9 +3277,9 @@ static int unit_set(struct idr *p, void *ptr, int n)
}
/* get new free unit number and associate pointer with it */
-static int unit_get(struct idr *p, void *ptr)
+static int unit_get(struct idr *p, void *ptr, int min)
{
- return idr_alloc(p, ptr, 0, 0, GFP_KERNEL);
+ return idr_alloc(p, ptr, min, 0, GFP_KERNEL);
}
/* put unit number back to a pool */