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-rw-r--r--net/core/dev.c3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 7580c2046c95..4cedc7595f1f 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -1095,8 +1095,7 @@ static int __dev_alloc_name(struct net *net, const char *name, char *buf)
free_page((unsigned long) inuse);
}
- if (buf != name)
- snprintf(buf, IFNAMSIZ, name, i);
+ snprintf(buf, IFNAMSIZ, name, i);
if (!__dev_get_by_name(net, buf))
return i;