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| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c b/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c index f226db4616b7..70cfa06ccd40 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c +++ b/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c @@ -1103,6 +1103,15 @@ static int ppp_nl_newlink(struct net *src_net, struct net_device *dev, } conf.file = file; + + /* Don't use device name generated by the rtnetlink layer when ifname + * isn't specified. Let ppp_dev_configure() set the device name using + * the PPP unit identifer as suffix (i.e. ppp<unit_id>). This allows + * userspace to infer the device name using to the PPPIOCGUNIT ioctl. + */ + if (!tb[IFLA_IFNAME]) + conf.ifname_is_set = false; + err = ppp_dev_configure(src_net, dev, &conf); out_unlock: |