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[PATCH net] bonding: avoid ARP flood on RTNL contention in active-backup mode

From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Date: 2026-08-31 09:09:39
Subsystem: bonding driver, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Jay Vosburgh, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

Commit f1986b3a9f2e ("net: bonding: skip the 2nd trylock when first one
fail") changed bond_activebackup_arp_mon() to reschedule arp_work in
1 tick if the second rtnl_trylock() fails (for sending peer/slave
notifications).

However, by the time bond_activebackup_arp_mon() reaches this second lock
check, bond_ab_arp_probe() has already been executed and sent an ARP probe.
If RTNL remains contended, rescheduling every 1 tick causes
bond_activebackup_arp_mon() to re-execute bond_ab_arp_probe() every jiffy,
flooding the network with ARP probes at HZ frequency (e.g. 1000 pkts/sec)
instead of respecting the configured arp_interval.

If rtnl_trylock() fails at the second check, do not change delta_in_ticks
to 1 so that the next ARP monitor execution is scheduled according to the
configured arp_interval, matching the behavior in
bond_loadbalance_arp_mon().

Fixes: f1986b3a9f2e ("net: bonding: skip the 2nd trylock when first one fail")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
---
Cc: Tonghao Zhang <redacted>
Cc: Hangbin Liu <redacted>
Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jv@jvosburgh.net>
---
 drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
index ef9eb0c53c66..c23cf18a996a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
@@ -3871,10 +3871,8 @@ static void bond_activebackup_arp_mon(struct bonding *bond)
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 
 	if (READ_ONCE(bond->send_peer_notif) || should_notify_rtnl) {
-		if (!rtnl_trylock()) {
-			delta_in_ticks = 1;
+		if (!rtnl_trylock())
 			goto re_arm;
-		}
 
 		if (bond->send_peer_notif)
 			bond_peer_notify_may_events(bond, true);
-- 
2.55.0.897.gb25b4bd76c-goog
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