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Revision 93a7320e

ID93a7320e32a2b7463c4dc3cfb5a0c77c46d8e687

Added by Luiz Capitulino over 12 years ago

net: tap-linux: Fix unhelpful error message

I'm getting:

could not configure /dev/net/tun (tap%d): Operation not permitted

When the ioctl() fails, ifr.ifr_name will most likely not be overwritten.
So we better only use it when ifname contains a string.

Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <>

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