[PATCH net v2 3/3] bonding: 3ad: fix stuck negotiation on recovery
From: Louis Scalbert <hidden>
Date: 2026-03-25 13:44:44
Subsystem:
bonding driver, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers:
Jay Vosburgh, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
The previous commit introduced a side effect caused by clearing the
SELECTED flag on disabled ports. After all ports in an aggregator go
down, if only a subset of ports comes back up, those ports can no
longer renegotiate LACP unless all aggregator ports come back up.
1. All aggregator ports go down
- The SELECTED flag is cleared on all of them.
2. One port comes back up
- Its SELECTED flag is set again.
- It enters the WAITING state and gets its READY_N flag.
- The remaining ports stay UNSELECTED. Because of that, they cannot
enter the WAITING state and therefore never get READY_N.
- __agg_ports_are_ready() returns 0 because it finds a port without
READY_N.
- As a result, __set_agg_ports_ready() keeps the READY flag cleared on
all ports.
- The port that came back up is therefore not marked READY and cannot
transition to ATTACHED.
- LACP negotiation becomes stuck, and the port cannot be used.
3. All aggregator ports come back up
- They all regain SELECTED and READY_N.
- __agg_ports_are_ready() now returns 1.
- __set_agg_ports_ready() sets READY on all ports.
- They can then transition to ATTACHED.
- Negotiation resumes and the aggregator becomes operational again.
Consider only ports currently in the WAITING mux state for READY_N in
order to avoid __agg_ports_are_ready() to return 0 because of a disabled
port. That matches 802.3ad, which states: "The Selection Logic asserts
Ready TRUE when the values of Ready_N for all ports that are waiting to
attach to a given Aggregator are TRUE.".
Fixes: 655f8919d549 ("bonding: add min links parameter to 802.3ad")
Signed-off-by: Louis Scalbert <redacted>
---
drivers/net/bonding/bond_3ad.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_3ad.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_3ad.c
index 1771e406224c..86657de7143d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_3ad.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_3ad.c@@ -700,7 +700,8 @@ static void __update_ntt(struct lacpdu *lacpdu, struct port *port) } /** - * __agg_ports_are_ready - check if all ports in an aggregator are ready + * __agg_ports_are_ready - check if all ports in an aggregator that are in + * the WAITING state are ready * @aggregator: the aggregator we're looking at * */
@@ -716,6 +717,8 @@ static int __agg_ports_are_ready(struct aggregator *aggregator) for (port = aggregator->lag_ports; port; port = port->next_port_in_aggregator) { + if (port->sm_mux_state != AD_MUX_WAITING) + continue; if (!(port->sm_vars & AD_PORT_READY_N)) { retval = 0; break;
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2.39.2