net: loopback: use NET_NAME_PREDICTABLE for name_assign_type
authorRasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Wed, 23 Nov 2022 14:18:28 +0000 (15:18 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 7 Jan 2023 11:07:11 +0000 (12:07 +0100)
commit5fc7f7176a4eacbcbe9c49be21817dfcb01c5661
treecb91943b806a253421e8cbdee767f4f61c51614f
parent49d5867819ab7c744852b45509e8469839c07e0e
net: loopback: use NET_NAME_PREDICTABLE for name_assign_type

[ 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