On Mon, May 07, 2018 at 05:24:27PM -0700, Samudrala, Sridhar wrote:
>
>
> On 5/7/2018 4:53 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > On Mon, 7 May 2018 15:10:44 -0700
> > Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > +static struct net_device *net_failover_get_bymac(u8 *mac,
> > > + struct net_failover_ops **ops)
> > > +{
> > > + struct net_device *failover_dev;
> > > + struct net_failover *failover;
> > > +
> > > + spin_lock(&net_failover_lock);
> > > + list_for_each_entry(failover, &net_failover_list, list) {
> > > + failover_dev = rtnl_dereference(failover->failover_dev);
> > > + if (ether_addr_equal(failover_dev->perm_addr, mac)) {
> > > + *ops = rtnl_dereference(failover->ops);
> > > + spin_unlock(&net_failover_lock);
> > > + return failover_dev;
> > > + }
> > > + }
> > > + spin_unlock(&net_failover_lock);
> > > + return NULL;
> > > +}
> > This is broken if non-ethernet devices such as Infiniband are present.
>
> There is check to make sure that a slave and failover devices are of the same type in
> net_failover_slave_register()
>
> failover_dev = net_failover_get_bymac(slave_dev->perm_addr, &nfo_ops);
> if (!failover_dev)
> goto done;
>
> if (failover_dev->type != slave_dev->type)
> goto done;
>
> Do you think this is not good enough? I had an explicit check for ARPHRD_ETHER in
> earlier patchsets, but removed it based on Jiri's comment.
Right but how is ether_addr_equal supposed to work if types are
identical but not ethernet?
This can also benefit from a comment referring to the check in
net_failover_slave_register.
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MST
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