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From: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei•com>
To: Zheng Li <zheng.x.li@oracle•com>, <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
	<fubar@us•ibm.com>, <andy@greyhouse•net>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org>, <davem@davemloft•net>,
	<joe.jin@oracle•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bonding: Inactive slaves should keep inactive flag's value to 1.
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 17:36:12 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <532AB68C.1040003@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1395305504-29973-1-git-send-email-zheng.x.li@oracle.com>

On 2014/3/20 16:51, Zheng Li wrote:
> Except bond mode 1, in other bond modes, inactive slaves should keep inactive flag to
> 1 to refuse to receive broadcast packets. Now, active slave send broadcast packets
> (for example ARP requests) which will arrive inactive slaves on same host from switch,
> but inactive slave's inactive flag is zero that cause bridge receive the broadcast
> packets to produce a wrong entry in forward table. Typical situation is domu send some
> ARP request which go out from dom0 bond's active slave, then the ARP broadcast request
> packets go back to inactive slave from switch, because the inactive slave's inactive
> flag is zero, kernel will receive the packets and pass them to bridge, that cause dom0's
> bridge map domu's MAC address to port of bond, bridge should map domu's MAC to port of vif.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zheng Li <zheng.x.li@oracle•com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
> index e5628fc..2f73f18 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
> @@ -3063,7 +3063,7 @@ static int bond_open(struct net_device *bond_dev)
>  				bond_set_slave_inactive_flags(slave,
>  							      BOND_SLAVE_NOTIFY_NOW);
>  			} else {
> -				bond_set_slave_active_flags(slave,
> +				bond_set_slave_state(slave, BOND_STATE_ACTIVE,
>  							    BOND_SLAVE_NOTIFY_NOW);

This patch could be applied?

Ding

>  			}
>  		}
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-20  9:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-20  8:51 [PATCH] bonding: Inactive slaves should keep inactive flag's value to 1 Zheng Li
2014-03-20  9:36 ` Ding Tianhong [this message]
2014-03-20 17:02 ` Jay Vosburgh
2014-03-21  2:39   ` zheng.li
2014-03-21  8:41     ` Ding Tianhong
2014-03-21 17:43     ` Jay Vosburgh
2014-03-24  9:01       ` zheng.li
2014-03-24 19:25         ` David Miller
2014-03-21 11:34 ` Sergei Shtylyov
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-03-28  9:22 Zheng Li
2014-03-31  6:58 ` zheng.li
2014-04-01  0:35 ` Jay Vosburgh

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