This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
bonding: fix ad_actor_system option setting to default
to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
bonding-fix-ad_actor_system-option-setting-to-defaul.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 2ceeb885e0fbeea131836c95c4d33d492e7e6bd4
Author: Fernando Fernandez Mancera <ffmancera@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Dec 21 12:13:45 2021 +0100
bonding: fix ad_actor_system option setting to default
[ Upstream commit 1c15b05baea71a5ff98235783e3e4ad227760876 ]
When 802.3ad bond mode is configured the ad_actor_system option is set to
"00:00:00:00:00:00". But when trying to set the all-zeroes MAC as actors'
system address it was failing with EINVAL.
An all-zeroes ethernet address is valid, only multicast addresses are not
valid values.
Fixes: 171a42c38c6e ("bonding: add netlink support for sys prio, actor sys mac, and port key")
Signed-off-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera <ffmancera@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211221111345.2462-1-ffmancera@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/bonding.rst b/Documentation/networking/bonding.rst
index 31cfd7d674a6c..c0a789b008063 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/bonding.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/bonding.rst
@@ -196,11 +196,12 @@ ad_actor_sys_prio
ad_actor_system
In an AD system, this specifies the mac-address for the actor in
- protocol packet exchanges (LACPDUs). The value cannot be NULL or
- multicast. It is preferred to have the local-admin bit set for this
- mac but driver does not enforce it. If the value is not given then
- system defaults to using the masters' mac address as actors' system
- address.
+ protocol packet exchanges (LACPDUs). The value cannot be a multicast
+ address. If the all-zeroes MAC is specified, bonding will internally
+ use the MAC of the bond itself. It is preferred to have the
+ local-admin bit set for this mac but driver does not enforce it. If
+ the value is not given then system defaults to using the masters'
+ mac address as actors' system address.
This parameter has effect only in 802.3ad mode and is available through
SysFs interface.
diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_options.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_options.c
index a8fde3bc458f6..b93337b5a7211 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_options.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_options.c
@@ -1526,7 +1526,7 @@ static int bond_option_ad_actor_system_set(struct bonding *bond,
mac = (u8 *)&newval->value;
}
- if (!is_valid_ether_addr(mac))
+ if (is_multicast_ether_addr(mac))
goto err;
netdev_dbg(bond->dev, "Setting ad_actor_system to %pM\n", mac);
