[PATCH net v2] bonding: fix initial last_rx vs ARP-monitor slack window

From: Ramses de Norre <redacted>

Commit f31c7937c254 ("bonding: start slaves with link down for ARP
monitor") initialises a freshly enslaved port's last_rx to
jiffies - (arp_interval + 1) so that it does not "immediately cause
fake detection of 'up' state". At the time, the comparison was a plain
<= arp_interval and the value was just stale enough.

Commit da210f559019 ("bonding: add some slack to arp monitoring time
limits"), four months later, added a +arp_interval/2 slack term to
every comparison (now bond_time_in_interval()) but did not widen the
init to match. Since then, bond_time_in_interval(bond, last_rx, 1) is
true for the first ~arp_interval/2 after enslavement even though no
packet has been received: the upper bound is last_rx + 1.5*delta and
last_rx was set to jiffies - delta - 1.

If the ARP monitor tick lands in that window, bond_ab_arp_inspect()
proposes the slave UP. If the slave is the configured primary,
bond_ab_arp_commit() sets do_failover and the still-armed
force_primary in bond_choose_primary_or_current() makes it the active
slave regardless of primary_reselect. ARP validation as the active
slave then fails (the link has not actually received anything; on
SFP+ ports the PHY is often still negotiating) and the bond falls back
to the backup. With primary_reselect=failure, force_primary has now
been spent and the bond stays on the backup until something else
triggers a reselect.

Reproducer:

  ip link add bond0 type bond mode active-backup arp_interval 1000 \
      arp_validate all arp_ip_target 192.0.2.1 \
      primary eth0 primary_reselect failure
  # eth0: SFP+ (slow link-up), eth1: RJ45 (fast link-up)
  ip link set eth0 master bond0
  ip link set eth1 master bond0
  ip link set bond0 up
  # bond0 lands on eth0 via force_primary, ARP-fails it before the
  # SFP+ has carrier, falls to eth1, and stays there.

Initialise last_rx (and the per-target array, and last_tx) to two full
intervals in the past so it is outside the slack window from the
start.

Fixes: da210f559019 ("bonding: add some slack to arp monitoring time limits")
Signed-off-by: Ramses de Norre <redacted>
---
Changes in v2:
- No code changes. Resend with my personal name in the From and
  Signed-off-by lines instead of my handle, as requested for the DCO.
- Link to v1: https://patch.msgid.link/20260817-bonding-last-rx-v1-1-9da6f7fdf812@well-founded.dev
---
 drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
index 522eab060f9ed..23e1544faf39f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c

@@ -2123,7 +2123,7 @@ int bond_enslave(struct net_device *bond_dev, struct net_device *slave_dev,
 		new_slave->link = BOND_LINK_DOWN;
 
 	new_slave->last_rx = jiffies -
-		(msecs_to_jiffies(bond->params.arp_interval) + 1);
+		(2 * msecs_to_jiffies(bond->params.arp_interval) + 1);
 	for (i = 0; i < BOND_MAX_ARP_TARGETS; i++)
 		new_slave->target_last_arp_rx[i] = new_slave->last_rx;
 

---
base-commit: 24ef02f934eeb48830cff6b739abc3c62b1d107b
change-id: 20260817-bonding-last-rx-0303fa048f9d

Best regards,
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Ramses de Norre [off-list ref]