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 d192936b76cf..7863918592db 100644 --- a/drivers/net/loopback.c +++ b/drivers/net/loopback.c @@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ 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;