From 31d929de5a112ee1b977a89c57de74710894bbbf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rasmus Villemoes Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2022 15:18:28 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] net: loopback: use NET_NAME_PREDICTABLE for name_assign_type 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 Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- 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 14e8d04cb434..2e9742952c4e 100644 --- a/drivers/net/loopback.c +++ b/drivers/net/loopback.c @@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ 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;