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net: usb: usbnet: restore usb%d name exception for local mac addresses
authorDominique Martinet <dominique.martinet@atmark-techno.com>
Wed, 26 Mar 2025 08:32:36 +0000 (17:32 +0900)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 7 Apr 2025 08:11:12 +0000 (10:11 +0200)
commita24520f748db004d2fbb1daf23c331b48c688a1a
tree4fddf2fafa7337a6e0bc4412a6f000c754cf9cf8
parenta79ba8ca9882ac07d0de2877b8491b4274f322d8
net: usb: usbnet: restore usb%d name exception for local mac addresses

commit 2ea396448f26d0d7d66224cb56500a6789c7ed07 upstream.

commit 8a7d12d674ac ("net: usb: usbnet: fix name regression") assumed
that local addresses always came from the kernel, but some devices hand
out local mac addresses so we ended up with point-to-point devices with
a mac set by the driver, renaming to eth%d when they used to be named
usb%d.

Userspace should not rely on device name, but for the sake of stability
restore the local mac address check portion of the naming exception:
point to point devices which either have no mac set by the driver or
have a local mac handed out by the driver will keep the usb%d name.

(some USB LTE modems are known to hand out a stable mac from the locally
administered range; that mac appears to be random (different for
mulitple devices) and can be reset with device-specific commands, so
while such devices would benefit from getting a OUI reserved, we have
to deal with these and might as well preserve the existing behavior
to avoid breaking fragile openwrt configurations and such on upgrade.)

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241203130457.904325-1-asmadeus@codewreck.org
Fixes: 8a7d12d674ac ("net: usb: usbnet: fix name regression")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Tested-by: Ahmed Naseef <naseefkm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet <dominique.martinet@atmark-techno.com>
Acked-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250326-usbnet_rename-v2-1-57eb21fcff26@atmark-techno.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c