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    bonding: fix 802.3ad state sent to partner when unbinding slave · 87c1a07b
    Toni Peltonen authored
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    Previously when unbinding a slave the 802.3ad implementation only told
    partner that the port is not suitable for aggregation by setting the port
    aggregation state from aggregatable to individual. This is not enough. If the
    physical layer still stays up and we only unbinded this port from the bond there
    is nothing in the aggregation status alone to prevent the partner from sending
    traffic towards us. To ensure that the partner doesn't consider this
    port at all anymore we should also disable collecting and distributing to
    signal that this actor is going away. Also clear AD_STATE_SYNCHRONIZATION to
    ensure partner exits collecting + distributing state.
    
    I have tested this behaviour againts Arista EOS switches with mlx5 cards
    (physical link stays up even when interface is down) and simulated
    the same situation virtually Linux <-> Linux with two network namespaces
    running two veth device pairs. In both cases setting aggregation to
    individual doesn't alone prevent traffic from being to sent towards this
    port given that the link stays up in partners end. Partner still keeps
    it's end in collecting + distributing state and continues until timeout is
    reached. In most cases this means we are losing the traffic partner sends
    towards our port while we wait for timeout. This is most visible with slow
    periodic time (LACP rate slow).
    
    Other open source implementations like Open VSwitch and libreswitch, and
    vendor implementations like Arista EOS, seem to disable collecting +
    distributing to when doing similar port disabling/detaching/removing change.
    With this patch kernel implementation would behave the same way and ensure
    partner doesn't consider our actor viable anymore.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarToni Peltonen <peltzi@peltzi.fi>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarJonathan Toppins <jtoppins@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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