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[PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 08/10] net: loopback: use NET_NAME_PREDICTABLE for name_assign_type

From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Date: 2022-12-06 09:53:32
Also in: lkml, stable
Subsystem: networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

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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