Re: [PATCH] netpoll: Fix device name check in netpoll_setup()

[David Miller]

From: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 11:36:25 -0700

> Apparently netpoll_setup() assumes that netpoll.dev_name is a pointer
> when checking if the device name is set:
> 
> if (np->dev_name) {
>   ...
> 
> However the field is a character array, therefore the condition always
> yields true. Check instead whether the first byte of the array has a
> non-zero value.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks a lot.