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-rw-r--r--include/linux/netdevice.h2
-rw-r--r--net/core/dev.c12
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index 4d279c5287f..a89933bc4f2 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -2122,7 +2122,7 @@ extern int netdev_rx_handler_register(struct net_device *dev,
void *rx_handler_data);
extern void netdev_rx_handler_unregister(struct net_device *dev);
-extern int dev_valid_name(const char *name);
+extern bool dev_valid_name(const char *name);
extern int dev_ioctl(struct net *net, unsigned int cmd, void __user *);
extern int dev_ethtool(struct net *net, struct ifreq *);
extern unsigned dev_get_flags(const struct net_device *);
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 5ef3b65c368..0090809af7b 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -848,21 +848,21 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_get_by_flags_rcu);
* to allow sysfs to work. We also disallow any kind of
* whitespace.
*/
-int dev_valid_name(const char *name)
+bool dev_valid_name(const char *name)
{
if (*name == '\0')
- return 0;
+ return false;
if (strlen(name) >= IFNAMSIZ)
- return 0;
+ return false;
if (!strcmp(name, ".") || !strcmp(name, ".."))
- return 0;
+ return false;
while (*name) {
if (*name == '/' || isspace(*name))
- return 0;
+ return false;
name++;
}
- return 1;
+ return true;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_valid_name);