This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
s390/qeth: Fix potential loss of L3-IP@ in case of network issues
to the 5.10-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:
s390-qeth-fix-potential-loss-of-l3-ip-in-case-of-network-issues.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 2fe8a236436fe40d8d26a1af8d150fc80f04ee1a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexandra Winter <wintera@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2024 09:58:49 +0100
Subject: s390/qeth: Fix potential loss of L3-IP@ in case of network issues
From: Alexandra Winter <wintera@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 2fe8a236436fe40d8d26a1af8d150fc80f04ee1a upstream.
Symptom:
In case of a bad cable connection (e.g. dirty optics) a fast sequence of
network DOWN-UP-DOWN-UP could happen. UP triggers recovery of the qeth
interface. In case of a second DOWN while recovery is still ongoing, it
can happen that the IP@ of a Layer3 qeth interface is lost and will not
be recovered by the second UP.
Problem:
When registration of IP addresses with Layer 3 qeth devices fails, (e.g.
because of bad address format) the respective IP address is deleted from
its hash-table in the driver. If registration fails because of a ENETDOWN
condition, the address should stay in the hashtable, so a subsequent
recovery can restore it.
3caa4af834df ("qeth: keep ip-address after LAN_OFFLINE failure")
fixes this for registration failures during normal operation, but not
during recovery.
Solution:
Keep L3-IP address in case of ENETDOWN in qeth_l3_recover_ip(). For
consistency with qeth_l3_add_ip() we also keep it in case of EADDRINUSE,
i.e. for some reason the card already/still has this address registered.
Fixes: 4a71df50047f ("qeth: new qeth device driver")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Alexandra Winter <wintera@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240206085849.2902775-1-wintera@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/s390/net/qeth_l3_main.c | 9 ++++++---
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l3_main.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l3_main.c
@@ -257,9 +257,10 @@ static void qeth_l3_clear_ip_htable(stru
if (!recover) {
hash_del(&addr->hnode);
kfree(addr);
- continue;
+ } else {
+ /* prepare for recovery */
+ addr->disp_flag = QETH_DISP_ADDR_ADD;
}
- addr->disp_flag = QETH_DISP_ADDR_ADD;
}
mutex_unlock(&card->ip_lock);
@@ -280,9 +281,11 @@ static void qeth_l3_recover_ip(struct qe
if (addr->disp_flag == QETH_DISP_ADDR_ADD) {
rc = qeth_l3_register_addr_entry(card, addr);
- if (!rc) {
+ if (!rc || rc == -EADDRINUSE || rc == -ENETDOWN) {
+ /* keep it in the records */
addr->disp_flag = QETH_DISP_ADDR_DO_NOTHING;
} else {
+ /* bad address */
hash_del(&addr->hnode);
kfree(addr);
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from wintera@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-5.10/s390-qeth-fix-potential-loss-of-l3-ip-in-case-of-network-issues.patch
