This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
bonding: Don't update slave->link until ready to commit
to the 3.18-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-don-t-update-slave-link-until-ready-to-commit.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Tue Apr 10 13:58:07 CEST 2018
From: Nithin Sujir <nsujir@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 19:45:17 -0700
Subject: bonding: Don't update slave->link until ready to commit
From: Nithin Sujir <nsujir@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 797a93647a48d6cb8a20641a86a71713a947f786 ]
In the loadbalance arp monitoring scheme, when a slave link change is
detected, the slave->link is immediately updated and slave_state_changed
is set. Later down the function, the rtnl_lock is acquired and the
changes are committed, updating the bond link state.
However, the acquisition of the rtnl_lock can fail. The next time the
monitor runs, since slave->link is already updated, it determines that
link is unchanged. This results in the bond link state permanently out
of sync with the slave link.
This patch modifies bond_loadbalance_arp_mon() to handle link changes
identical to bond_ab_arp_{inspect/commit}(). The new link state is
maintained in slave->new_link until we're ready to commit at which point
it's copied into slave->link.
NOTE: miimon_{inspect/commit}() has a more complex state machine
requiring the use of the bond_{propose,commit}_link_state() functions
which maintains the intermediate state in slave->link_new_state. The arp
monitors don't require that.
Testing: This bug is very easy to reproduce with the following steps.
1. In a loop, toggle a slave link of a bond slave interface.
2. In a separate loop, do ifconfig up/down of an unrelated interface to
create contention for rtnl_lock.
Within a few iterations, the bond link goes out of sync with the slave
link.
Signed-off-by: Nithin Nayak Sujir <nsujir@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 11 +++++++++--
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
@@ -2425,11 +2425,13 @@ static void bond_loadbalance_arp_mon(str
bond_for_each_slave_rcu(bond, slave, iter) {
unsigned long trans_start = dev_trans_start(slave->dev);
+ slave->new_link = BOND_LINK_NOCHANGE;
+
if (slave->link != BOND_LINK_UP) {
if (bond_time_in_interval(bond, trans_start, 1) &&
bond_time_in_interval(bond, slave->last_rx, 1)) {
- slave->link = BOND_LINK_UP;
+ slave->new_link = BOND_LINK_UP;
slave_state_changed = 1;
/* primary_slave has no meaning in round-robin
@@ -2456,7 +2458,7 @@ static void bond_loadbalance_arp_mon(str
if (!bond_time_in_interval(bond, trans_start, 2) ||
!bond_time_in_interval(bond, slave->last_rx, 2)) {
- slave->link = BOND_LINK_DOWN;
+ slave->new_link = BOND_LINK_DOWN;
slave_state_changed = 1;
if (slave->link_failure_count < UINT_MAX)
@@ -2487,6 +2489,11 @@ static void bond_loadbalance_arp_mon(str
if (!rtnl_trylock())
goto re_arm;
+ bond_for_each_slave(bond, slave, iter) {
+ if (slave->new_link != BOND_LINK_NOCHANGE)
+ slave->link = slave->new_link;
+ }
+
if (slave_state_changed) {
bond_slave_state_change(bond);
if (BOND_MODE(bond) == BOND_MODE_XOR)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from nsujir@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.18/bonding-don-t-update-slave-link-until-ready-to-commit.patch