diff --git a/Documentation/networking/dsa/configuration.rst b/Documentation/networking/dsa/configuration.rst
index e6c9719874b08593c36a321d5d18f261dd1b68a9..6cc4ded3cc2398642210cd9689f91571dc886714 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/dsa/configuration.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/dsa/configuration.rst
@@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ description which has an ``ethernet`` property. It is up to the user to
 configure the system for the switch to use other conduits.
 
 DSA uses the ``rtnl_link_ops`` mechanism (with a "dsa" ``kind``) to allow
-changing the DSA conduit of a user port. The ``IFLA_DSA_MASTER`` u32 netlink
+changing the DSA conduit of a user port. The ``IFLA_DSA_CONDUIT`` u32 netlink
 attribute contains the ifindex of the conduit device that handles each user
 device. The DSA conduit must be a valid candidate based on firmware node
 information, or a LAG interface which contains only slaves which are valid
@@ -435,7 +435,7 @@ Using iproute2, the following manipulations are possible:
         dsa master bond0
 
 Notice that in the case of CPU ports under a LAG, the use of the
-``IFLA_DSA_MASTER`` netlink attribute is not strictly needed, but rather, DSA
+``IFLA_DSA_CONDUIT`` netlink attribute is not strictly needed, but rather, DSA
 reacts to the ``IFLA_MASTER`` attribute change of its present conduit (``eth0``)
 and migrates all user ports to the new upper of ``eth0``, ``bond0``. Similarly,
 when ``bond0`` is destroyed using ``RTM_DELLINK``, DSA migrates the user ports
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/if_link.h b/include/uapi/linux/if_link.h
index 9f8a3da0f14ff3007f3fd0cbd0e1ebbc4647df2f..f4191be137a40a369c00704fb8b0748012c70ab0 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/if_link.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/if_link.h
@@ -1394,7 +1394,9 @@ enum {
 
 enum {
 	IFLA_DSA_UNSPEC,
-	IFLA_DSA_MASTER,
+	IFLA_DSA_CONDUIT,
+	/* Deprecated, use IFLA_DSA_CONDUIT instead */
+	IFLA_DSA_MASTER = IFLA_DSA_CONDUIT,
 	__IFLA_DSA_MAX,
 };
 
diff --git a/net/dsa/netlink.c b/net/dsa/netlink.c
index f56f90a25b99bdf2b6f0f9274ce1bb768cf4e34e..1332e56349e53561717d7a1e19e52fae0e1990c6 100644
--- a/net/dsa/netlink.c
+++ b/net/dsa/netlink.c
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 #include "user.h"
 
 static const struct nla_policy dsa_policy[IFLA_DSA_MAX + 1] = {
-	[IFLA_DSA_MASTER]	= { .type = NLA_U32 },
+	[IFLA_DSA_CONDUIT]	= { .type = NLA_U32 },
 };
 
 static int dsa_changelink(struct net_device *dev, struct nlattr *tb[],
@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ static int dsa_changelink(struct net_device *dev, struct nlattr *tb[],
 	if (!data)
 		return 0;
 
-	if (data[IFLA_DSA_MASTER]) {
-		u32 ifindex = nla_get_u32(data[IFLA_DSA_MASTER]);
+	if (data[IFLA_DSA_CONDUIT]) {
+		u32 ifindex = nla_get_u32(data[IFLA_DSA_CONDUIT]);
 		struct net_device *conduit;
 
 		conduit = __dev_get_by_index(dev_net(dev), ifindex);
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ static int dsa_changelink(struct net_device *dev, struct nlattr *tb[],
 
 static size_t dsa_get_size(const struct net_device *dev)
 {
-	return nla_total_size(sizeof(u32)) +	/* IFLA_DSA_MASTER  */
+	return nla_total_size(sizeof(u32)) +	/* IFLA_DSA_CONDUIT  */
 	       0;
 }
 
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ static int dsa_fill_info(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct net_device *dev)
 {
 	struct net_device *conduit = dsa_user_to_conduit(dev);
 
-	if (nla_put_u32(skb, IFLA_DSA_MASTER, conduit->ifindex))
+	if (nla_put_u32(skb, IFLA_DSA_CONDUIT, conduit->ifindex))
 		return -EMSGSIZE;
 
 	return 0;