Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 10283] New: Ooops when bonding and vlan on the same device

From: Jay Vosburgh <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:10:24 -0700

Andrew Morton <[email-masked]> wrote:
[...]
>On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 05:19:34 -0700 (PDT)
>[email-masked] wrote:
>
>> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10283
>> 
>>            Summary: Ooops when bonding and vlan on the same device
>>            Product: Networking
>>            Version: 2.5
>>      KernelVersion: 2.6.18
>>           Platform: All
>>         OS/Version: Linux
>>               Tree: Mainline
>>             Status: NEW
>>           Severity: low
>>           Priority: P1
>>          Component: Other
>>         AssignedTo: [email-masked]
>>         ReportedBy: [email-masked]
>> 
>> 
>> Latest working kernel version: ?
>> Earliest failing kernel version: 2.6.18-6
>> Distribution: Debian
>> Hardware Environment: x86-686
>> Software Environment: stable release of Debian ETCH
>> Problem Description:
>> 
>> Ooops when adding a vlan on a device that is in slave mode of a bond device
>> (Sory for my english :)
>> 
>> Steps to reproduce:
>> 
>> modprobe bonding mode=1 miimon=100
>> ifconfig eth0 promisc up
>> ifenslave bond0 eth0
>> ifconfig bond0 up
>> vconfig add eth0 2 => Ooops
>> 
>
>Is a copy of the oops output available?
>
>Is there any possibility of testing a more up-to-date kernel?

	I don't see any errors when adding a VLAN approximately as
described above when running 2.6.25-rc4.  I say approximately because
the steps must be performed in a different order than shown, but adding
a VLAN to a slave that's up and promisc isn't generating an error for
me.

	-J

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	-Jay Vosburgh, IBM Linux Technology Center, [email-masked]