[linux-stable-3.16.y] tun: allow positive return values on dev_get_valid_name() call

From	Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.kernel
Subject	[linux-stable-3.16.y] tun: allow positive return values on dev_get_valid_name() call
Date	2018-05-14 16:10 +0200
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Hi Ben,

some Debian/jessie systems were caught by the bug-report in [1].
This issue was recently fixed in an updated Debian kernel for v3.16.y.

Will you include the patch "tun: allow positive return values on
dev_get_valid_name() call" [2] in linux-stable-3.16.y upstream?
This was a fix for  "tun: call dev_get_valid_name() before
register_netdevice()" [3].
Unfortunately, there is not a reference (usually "Fixes:" tag) for this in [2].
Not sure if this was documented in the meantime like [4] says.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
- Sedat -

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=897427
[2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5c25f65fd1e42685f7ccd80e0621829c105785d9
[3] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0ad646c81b2182f7fa67ec0c8c825e0ee165696d
[4] https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg462705.html

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[linux-stable-3.16.y] tun: allow positive return values on  dev_get_valid_name() call Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> - 2018-05-14 16:10 +0200
  Re: [linux-stable-3.16.y] tun: allow positive return values on  dev_get_valid_name() call Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2018-05-14 16:30 +0200

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