netdev - Re: [PATCH] bonding: 802.3ad

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Date:	Wed, 20 Apr 2011 01:45:36 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	fubar@...ibm.com
Cc:	jbohac@...e.cz, netdev@...r.kernel.org, andy@...yhouse.net,
	shemminger@...tta.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bonding: 802.3ad - fix agg_device_up

From: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 09:55:03 -0700

> Jiri Bohac <jbohac@...e.cz> wrote:
> 
>>The slave member of struct aggregator does not necessarily point
>>to a slave which is part of the aggregator. It points to the
>>slave structure containing the aggregator structure, while
>>completely different slaves (or no slaves at all) may be part of
>>the aggregator.
>>
>>The agg_device_up() function wrongly uses agg->slave to find the state of the
>>aggregator.  Use agg->lag_ports->slave instead. The bug has been
>>introduced by commit 4cd6fe1c6483cde93e2ec91f58b7af9c9eea51ad.
>>
>>Signed-off-by: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@...e.cz>
> 
> 	One additional note: port->slave can be NULL when the slave is
> transitioning in or out of the bond, but not when the port is part of an
> aggregator, so this usage should be safe.
> 
> 	-J
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.
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