This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled bonding: Fix broken promiscuity reference counting issue to the 3.4-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-broken-promiscuity-reference-counting-issue.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 403d61067699a422e03c829b5c782f9b48e681dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 12:22:15 -0400 Subject: bonding: Fix broken promiscuity reference counting issue From: Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 5a0068deb611109c5ba77358be533f763f395ee4 ] Recently grabbed this report: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1005567 Of an issue in which the bonding driver, with an attached vlan encountered the following errors when bond0 was taken down and back up: dummy1: promiscuity touches roof, set promiscuity failed. promiscuity feature of device might be broken. The error occurs because, during __bond_release_one, if we release our last slave, we take on a random mac address and issue a NETDEV_CHANGEADDR notification. With an attached vlan, the vlan may see that the vlan and bond mac address were in sync, but no longer are. This triggers a call to dev_uc_add and dev_set_rx_mode, which enables IFF_PROMISC on the bond device. Then, when we complete __bond_release_one, we use the current state of the bond flags to determine if we should decrement the promiscuity of the releasing slave. But since the bond changed promiscuity state during the release operation, we incorrectly decrement the slave promisc count when it wasn't in promiscuous mode to begin with, causing the above error Fix is pretty simple, just cache the bonding flags at the start of the function and use those when determining the need to set promiscuity. This is also needed for the ALLMULTI flag Reported-by: Mark Wu <wudxw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> CC: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@xxxxxxxxxx> CC: Andy Gospodarek <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> CC: Mark Wu <wudxw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 13 ++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c @@ -1933,6 +1933,7 @@ int bond_release(struct net_device *bond struct bonding *bond = netdev_priv(bond_dev); struct slave *slave, *oldcurrent; struct sockaddr addr; + int old_flags = bond_dev->flags; netdev_features_t old_features = bond_dev->features; /* slave is not a slave or master is not master of this slave */ @@ -2066,12 +2067,18 @@ int bond_release(struct net_device *bond * already taken care of above when we detached the slave */ if (!USES_PRIMARY(bond->params.mode)) { - /* unset promiscuity level from slave */ - if (bond_dev->flags & IFF_PROMISC) + /* unset promiscuity level from slave + * NOTE: The NETDEV_CHANGEADDR call above may change the value + * of the IFF_PROMISC flag in the bond_dev, but we need the + * value of that flag before that change, as that was the value + * when this slave was attached, so we cache at the start of the + * function and use it here. Same goes for ALLMULTI below + */ + if (old_flags & IFF_PROMISC) dev_set_promiscuity(slave_dev, -1); /* unset allmulti level from slave */ - if (bond_dev->flags & IFF_ALLMULTI) + if (old_flags & IFF_ALLMULTI) dev_set_allmulti(slave_dev, -1); /* flush master's mc_list from slave */ Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.4/bonding-fix-broken-promiscuity-reference-counting-issue.patch queue-3.4/net-sctp-fix-smatch-warning-in-sctp_send_asconf_del_ip.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html