hinic interfaces aren't getting predictable names

[dann frazier]

[Impact]
Interfaces associated with Huawei "hinic" PCI adapters will not be assigned predictable names[*] and instead remain using the kernel names (e.g. eth0). This can lead to races where the interface names are not the same on every boot. For example, in a system with both 2-port hinic and 2-port igb devices, the hinic interfaces would be eth0 & eth1 if the kernel finished probing hinic before igb loaded. But if igb completes loading first, the hinic interfaces would be eth2 & eth3.

[*] https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/

[Test Case]
lsmod | grep hinic
grep eth /proc/net/dev

[Fix]
There's an upstream fix that properly associates the hinic interfaces with their PCI devices, providing udev with the info it needs to generate a predictable name.

[Regression Risk]
The big regression risk here is with existing bionic installs w/ hinic devices. They will be currently using "eth" names by default, and this change will cause those names to change to "enP" names after upgrade. However, in only certain configs are those "eth" names reliable (e.g. only NIC in the system is a hinic plug-in card). It sucks to introduce such a change in a stable release - but users will be bitten by this when they upgrade or transition to the HWE kernel anyway if we don't.

[dann frazier (dannf)]

fyi, this appears to fix the problem for me.

[Ubuntu Kernel Bot (ubuntu-kernel-bot)]

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[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

Is this critical for 18.04.1 release?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 4.17.0-7.8

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linux (4.17.0-7.8) cosmic; urgency=medium

  * linux: 4.17.0-7.8 -proposed tracker (LP: #1785242)

  * Cosmic update to 4.17.12 stable release (LP: #1785211)
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[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

This bug is awaiting verification that the kernel in -proposed solves the problem. Please test the kernel and update this bug with the results. If the problem is solved, change the tag 'verification-needed-bionic' to 'verification-done-bionic'. If the problem still exists, change the tag 'verification-needed-bionic' to 'verification-failed-bionic'.

If verification is not done by 5 working days from today, this fix will be dropped from the source code, and this bug will be closed.

See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you!

[dann frazier (dannf)]

Verification:
ubuntu@d06-3:~$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 4.15.0-34-generic (buildd@bos02-arm64-002) (gcc version 7.3.0 (Ubuntu/Linaro 7.3.0-16ubuntu3)) #37-Ubuntu SMP Mon Aug 27 15:22:18 UTC 2018
ubuntu@d06-3:~$ lsmod | grep hinic
hinic 94208 0
ubuntu@d06-3:~$ grep eth /proc/net/dev
ubuntu@d06-3:~$

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 4.15.0-34.37

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linux (4.15.0-34.37) bionic; urgency=medium

  * linux: 4.15.0-34.37 -proposed tracker (LP: #1788744)

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