[PATCH 5.10 v2 1/3] bonding: restore IFF_MASTER/SLAVE flags on bond enslave ether type change
From: Alexey Panov <hidden>
Date: 2025-11-28 13:16:35
Also in:
bpf, lkml, stable
Subsystem:
bonding driver, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers:
Jay Vosburgh, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>
[ Upstream commit 9ec7eb60dcbcb6c41076defbc5df7bbd95ceaba5 ]
Add bond_ether_setup helper which is used to fix ether_setup() calls in the
bonding driver. It takes care of both IFF_MASTER and IFF_SLAVE flags, the
former is always restored and the latter only if it was set.
If the bond enslaves non-ARPHRD_ETHER device (changes its type), then
releases it and enslaves ARPHRD_ETHER device (changes back) then we
use ether_setup() to restore the bond device type but it also resets its
flags and removes IFF_MASTER and IFF_SLAVE[1]. Use the bond_ether_setup
helper to restore both after such transition.
[1] reproduce (nlmon is non-ARPHRD_ETHER):
$ ip l add nlmon0 type nlmon
$ ip l add bond2 type bond mode active-backup
$ ip l set nlmon0 master bond2
$ ip l set nlmon0 nomaster
$ ip l add bond1 type bond
(we use bond1 as ARPHRD_ETHER device to restore bond2's mode)
$ ip l set bond1 master bond2
$ ip l sh dev bond2
37: bond2: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
link/ether be:d7:c5:40:5b:cc brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff promiscuity 0 minmtu 68 maxmtu 1500
(notice bond2's IFF_MASTER is missing)
Fixes: e36b9d16c6a6 ("bonding: clean muticast addresses when device changes type")
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Panov <redacted>
---
drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 19 +++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
index 08bc930afc4c..127242101c8e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c@@ -1691,6 +1691,19 @@ void bond_lower_state_changed(struct slave *slave) netdev_lower_state_changed(slave->dev, &info); } +/* The bonding driver uses ether_setup() to convert a master bond device + * to ARPHRD_ETHER, that resets the target netdevice's flags so we always + * have to restore the IFF_MASTER flag, and only restore IFF_SLAVE if it was set + */ +static void bond_ether_setup(struct net_device *bond_dev) +{ + unsigned int slave_flag = bond_dev->flags & IFF_SLAVE; + + ether_setup(bond_dev); + bond_dev->flags |= IFF_MASTER | slave_flag; + bond_dev->priv_flags &= ~IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING; +} + /* enslave device <slave> to bond device <master> */ int bond_enslave(struct net_device *bond_dev, struct net_device *slave_dev, struct netlink_ext_ack *extack)
@@ -1777,10 +1790,8 @@ int bond_enslave(struct net_device *bond_dev, struct net_device *slave_dev, if (slave_dev->type != ARPHRD_ETHER) bond_setup_by_slave(bond_dev, slave_dev); - else { - ether_setup(bond_dev); - bond_dev->priv_flags &= ~IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING; - } + else + bond_ether_setup(bond_dev); call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_POST_TYPE_CHANGE, bond_dev);
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