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    bonding: set device in RLB ARP packet handler · d8190dff
    Greg Edwards authored
    After:
    
    commit 6146b1a4
    Author: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
    Date:   Tue Nov 4 17:51:15 2008 -0800
    
        bonding: Fix ALB mode to balance traffic on VLANs
    
    the dev field in the RLB ARP packet handler was set to NULL to wildcard
    and accommodate balancing VLANs on top of bonds.
    
    This has the side-effect of the packet handler being called against
    other, non RLB-enabled bonds, and a kernel oops results when it tries to
    dereference rx_hashtbl in rlb_update_entry_from_arp(), which won't be
    set for those bonds, e.g. active-backup.
    
    With the __netif_receive_skb() changes from:
    
    commit 1f3c8804
    
    
    Author: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
    Date:   Mon Dec 14 10:48:58 2009 +0000
    
        bonding: allow arp_ip_targets on separate vlans to use arp validation
    
    frames received on VLANs correctly make their way to the bond's handler,
    so we no longer need to wildcard the device.
    
    The oops can be reproduced by:
    
    modprobe bonding
    
    echo active-backup > /sys/class/net/bond0/bonding/mode
    echo 100 > /sys/class/net/bond0/bonding/miimon
    ifconfig bond0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
    echo +eth0 > /sys/class/net/bond0/bonding/slaves
    echo +eth1 > /sys/class/net/bond0/bonding/slaves
    
    echo +bond1 > /sys/class/net/bonding_masters
    echo balance-alb > /sys/class/net/bond1/bonding/mode
    echo 100 > /sys/class/net/bond1/bonding/miimon
    ifconfig bond1 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
    echo +eth2 > /sys/class/net/bond1/bonding/slaves
    echo +eth3 > /sys/class/net/bond1/bonding/slaves
    
    Pass some traffic on bond0.  Boom.
    
    [ Tested, behaves as advertised.  I do not believe a test of the bonding
    mode is necessary, as there is no race between the packet handler and
    the bonding mode changing (the mode can only change when the device is
    closed).  Also updated the log message to include the reproduction and
    full commit ids.  -J ]
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Edwards <greg.edwards@hp.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarAndy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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