veth: remove redundant call of dev_alloc_name

it's called in the following register_netdevice. No need to call it
here.
Tested with "ip link add type veth" and "ip link add xxx%d type veth".

Signed-off-by: Hong Zhiguo <honkiko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/veth.c b/drivers/net/veth.c
index 177f911f5946..da866523cf20 100644
--- a/drivers/net/veth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/veth.c
@@ -379,12 +379,6 @@ static int veth_newlink(struct net *src_net, struct net_device *dev,
         else
                 snprintf(dev->name, IFNAMSIZ, DRV_NAME "%%d");
 
-        if (strchr(dev->name, '%')) {
-                err = dev_alloc_name(dev, dev->name);
-                if (err < 0)
-                        goto err_alloc_name;
-        }
-
         err = register_netdevice(dev);
         if (err < 0)
                 goto err_register_dev;
@@ -404,7 +398,6 @@ static int veth_newlink(struct net *src_net, struct net_device *dev,
 
 err_register_dev:
         /* nothing to do */
-err_alloc_name:
 err_configure_peer:
         unregister_netdevice(peer);
         return err;