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SubjectRe: [PATCH net] bonding: emit event when bonding changes MAC
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Weiping Pan <wpan@redhat.com> wrote:

>When a bonding device is configured with fail_over_mac=active,
>we expect to see the MAC address of the new active slave as the source MAC
>address after failover. But we see that the source MAC address is the MAC
>address of previous active slave.
>
>Emit NETDEV_CHANGEADDR event when bonding changes its MAC address, in order
>to let arp_netdev_event flush neighbour cache and route cache.
>
>How to reproduce this bug ?
>
> -----------hostB----------------
>hostA ----- switch ---|-- eth0--bond0(192.168.100.2/24)|
>(192.168.100.1/24 \--|-- eth1-/ |
> --------------------------------
>
>1 on hostB,
>modprobe bonding mode=1 miimon=500 fail_over_mac=active downdelay=1000
>num_grat_arp=1
>ifconfig bond0 192.168.100.2/24 up
>ifenslave bond0 eth0
>ifenslave bond0 eth1
>
>then eth0 is the active slave, and MAC of bond0 is MAC of eth0.
>
>2 on hostA, ping 192.168.100.2
>
>3 on hostB,
>tcpdump -i bond0 -p icmp -XXX
>you will see bond0 uses MAC of eth0 as source MAC in icmp reply.
>
>4 on hostB,
>ifconfig eth0 down
>tcpdump -i bond0 -p icmp -XXX (just keep it running in step 3)
>you will see first bond0 uses MAC of eth1 as source MAC in icmp
>reply, then it will use MAC of eth0 as source MAC.
>
>Signed-off-by: Weiping Pan <wpan@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>


>---
> drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 8 +++++++-
> 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
>index b920d82..a20b585 100644
>--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
>+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
>@@ -892,9 +892,15 @@ static void bond_do_fail_over_mac(struct bonding *bond,
>
> switch (bond->params.fail_over_mac) {
> case BOND_FOM_ACTIVE:
>- if (new_active)
>+ if (new_active) {
> memcpy(bond->dev->dev_addr, new_active->dev->dev_addr,
> new_active->dev->addr_len);
>+ write_unlock_bh(&bond->curr_slave_lock);
>+ read_unlock(&bond->lock);
>+ call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_CHANGEADDR, bond->dev);
>+ read_lock(&bond->lock);
>+ write_lock_bh(&bond->curr_slave_lock);
>+ }
> break;
> case BOND_FOM_FOLLOW:
> /*
>--
>1.7.4
>
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