Jakub Kicinski says:
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net: deduplicate netdev name allocation
After recent fixes we have even more duplicated code in netdev name
allocation helpers. There are two complications in this code.
First, __dev_alloc_name() clobbers its output arg even if allocation
fails, forcing callers to do extra copies. Second as our experience in
commit
55a5ec9b7710 ("Revert "net: core: dev_get_valid_name is now the same as dev_alloc_name_ns"") and
commit
029b6d140550 ("Revert "net: core: maybe return -EEXIST in __dev_alloc_name"")
taught us, user space is very sensitive to the exact error codes.
Align the callers of __dev_alloc_name(), and remove some of its
complexity.
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/
20231020011856.
3244410-1-kuba@kernel.org/
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Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231023152346.3639749-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>