netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/2] bonding: vlan handling changes

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Date:	Thu, 08 Aug 2013 22:32:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	nikolay@...hat.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, andy@...yhouse.net, fubar@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/2] bonding: vlan handling changes

From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...hat.com>
Date: Tue,  6 Aug 2013 12:40:14 +0200

> From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <Nikolay Aleksandrov nikolay@...hat.com>
> 
> Hi,
> In v2 of these patchset I've dropped the previous patch 01 (vlan 0 fix)
> because it'll be taken care of later and these two patches are not
> dependent on it.
> 
> Patch 01 - switches the bonding to the now standard vlan syncing functions
> vlan_vids_add/del_by_dev() and removes the bonding specific ones. In v2
> upon vlan addition failure we fail the enslavement with an error message
> because otherwise we might delete vlans that weren't added by the bonding.
> The only way this may happen is with ENOMEM currently, so we're in trouble
> anyway.
> 
> Patch 02 - reverts vlan addition in case of bond_add_vlan failure because
> otherwise we may get bad vlan refcounts in the slaves.
> This patch is queued for net-next because a fix for -net without the list
> conversion would mean taking care of special cases and would be really
> ugly. Since this bug is not critical, I'd rather have the fix for net-next.
> It can happen only with ENOMEM, so again we're already in trouble.
> 
> Patches 01 and 02 are not connected and if you decide to drop patch 02
> please leave 01 (if accepted).
> 
> v2: See the notes, I've explained the changes together and by patch.

Series applied, thanks.
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