This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: loopback: use NET_NAME_PREDICTABLE for name_assign_type to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: net-loopback-use-net_name_predictable-for-name_assig.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit ed5ed1281fb434a44bde8f339ef52355d194b27b Author: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Nov 23 15:18:28 2022 +0100 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/loopback.c b/drivers/net/loopback.c index 30612497643c..daef41ce2349 100644 --- a/drivers/net/loopback.c +++ b/drivers/net/loopback.c @@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ 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;