diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index fa896699a930..774304f6cf60 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 387a85628782690b56492dae4bbf544639f5d4a9
+refs/heads/master: 0b20406cda621c2495d10baab1e87127ceb43337
diff --git a/trunk/net/9p/trans_virtio.c b/trunk/net/9p/trans_virtio.c
index dcfbe99ff81c..b88515936e4b 100644
--- a/trunk/net/9p/trans_virtio.c
+++ b/trunk/net/9p/trans_virtio.c
@@ -329,7 +329,8 @@ p9_virtio_create(struct p9_client *client, const char *devname, char *args)
 
 	mutex_lock(&virtio_9p_lock);
 	list_for_each_entry(chan, &virtio_chan_list, chan_list) {
-		if (!strncmp(devname, chan->tag, chan->tag_len)) {
+		if (!strncmp(devname, chan->tag, chan->tag_len) &&
+		    strlen(devname) == chan->tag_len) {
 			if (!chan->inuse) {
 				chan->inuse = true;
 				found = 1;