veth: remove unneeded ifname code from veth_newlink()

The code is not needed because tb[IFLA_IFNAME] is already
processed in rtnl_newlink(). Remove this redundancy.

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

diff --git a/drivers/net/veth.c b/drivers/net/veth.c
index cc83fa71c3ffb970b5107aa812e1e1956c9c7c82..105d7f0630ccb9c0a14b12395b04b322c5362e99 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/veth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/veth.c
@@ -403,17 +403,6 @@ static int veth_newlink(struct net *src_net, struct net_device *dev,
        if (tb[IFLA_ADDRESS] == NULL)
                random_ether_addr(dev->dev_addr);
 
-       if (tb[IFLA_IFNAME])
-               nla_strlcpy(dev->name, tb[IFLA_IFNAME], IFNAMSIZ);
-       else
-               snprintf(dev->name, IFNAMSIZ, DRV_NAME "%%d");
-
-       if (strchr(dev->name, '%')) {
-               err = dev_alloc_name(dev, dev->name);
-               if (err < 0)
-                       goto err_alloc_name;
-       }
-
        err = register_netdevice(dev);
        if (err < 0)
                goto err_register_dev;
@@ -433,7 +422,6 @@ static int veth_newlink(struct net *src_net, struct net_device *dev,
 
 err_register_dev:
        /* nothing to do */
-err_alloc_name:
 err_configure_peer:
        unregister_netdevice(peer);
        return err;