Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Sasha Levin <> | Subject | [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.15 09/12] net: loopback: use NET_NAME_PREDICTABLE for name_assign_type | Date | Tue, 6 Dec 2022 04:49:51 -0500 |
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From: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
[ Upstream commit 31d929de5a112ee1b977a89c57de74710894bbbf ]
When the name_assign_type attribute was introduced (commit 685343fc3ba6, "net: add name_assign_type netdev attribute"), the loopback device was explicitly mentioned as one which would make use of NET_NAME_PREDICTABLE:
The name_assign_type attribute gives hints where the interface name of a given net-device comes from. These values are currently defined: ... NET_NAME_PREDICTABLE: The ifname has been assigned by the kernel in a predictable way that is guaranteed to avoid reuse and always be the same for a given device. Examples include statically created devices like the loopback device [...]
Switch to that so that reading /sys/class/net/lo/name_assign_type produces something sensible instead of returning -EINVAL.
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> --- drivers/net/loopback.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/loopback.c b/drivers/net/loopback.c index a1c77cc00416..498e5c8013ef 100644 --- a/drivers/net/loopback.c +++ b/drivers/net/loopback.c @@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ static __net_init int loopback_net_init(struct net *net) int err; err = -ENOMEM; - dev = alloc_netdev(0, "lo", NET_NAME_UNKNOWN, loopback_setup); + dev = alloc_netdev(0, "lo", NET_NAME_PREDICTABLE, loopback_setup); if (!dev) goto out; -- 2.35.1
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