net: call dev_alloc_name from register_netdevice

Force dev_alloc_name() to be called from register_netdevice() by
dev_get_valid_name(). That allows to remove multiple explicit
dev_alloc_name() calls.

The possibility to call dev_alloc_name in advance remains.

This also fixes veth creation regresion caused by
84c49d8c3e4abefb0a41a77b25aa37ebe8d6b743

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/net/mac80211/iface.c b/net/mac80211/iface.c
index 4054399be907..80c29d626aa4 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/iface.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/iface.c
@@ -1144,10 +1144,6 @@ int ieee80211_if_add(struct ieee80211_local *local, const char *name,
                                 + IEEE80211_ENCRYPT_HEADROOM;
         ndev->needed_tailroom = IEEE80211_ENCRYPT_TAILROOM;
 
-        ret = dev_alloc_name(ndev, ndev->name);
-        if (ret < 0)
-                goto fail;
-
         ieee80211_assign_perm_addr(local, ndev, type);
         memcpy(ndev->dev_addr, ndev->perm_addr, ETH_ALEN);
         SET_NETDEV_DEV(ndev, wiphy_dev(local->hw.wiphy));