Ensure that the provided netdev name is not one of its aliases to
prevent unnecessary creation and destruction of the vport by
ovs-vswitchd.
Signed-off-by: Jun Gu <jun.gu@easystack.cn>
Acked-by: Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240419061425.132723-1-jun.gu@easystack.cn
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
int err;
vport->dev = dev_get_by_name(ovs_dp_get_net(vport->dp), name);
- if (!vport->dev) {
+ /* Ensure that the device exists and that the provided
+ * name is not one of its aliases.
+ */
+ if (!vport->dev || strcmp(name, ovs_vport_name(vport))) {
err = -ENODEV;
goto error_free_vport;
}