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Date:	Mon, 20 Jul 2015 12:56:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	razor@...ckwall.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, j.vosburgh@...il.com,
	gospo@...ulusnetworks.com, vfalico@...il.com,
	clsoto@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, ebiederm@...ssion.com,
	nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] bonding: fix destruction of bond with devices
 different from arphrd_ether

From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@...ckwall.org>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 21:52:51 +0200

> From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>
> 
> When the bonding is being unloaded and the netdevice notifier is
> unregistered it executes NETDEV_UNREGISTER for each device which should
> remove the bond's proc entry but if the device enslaved is not of
> ARPHRD_ETHER type and is in front of the bonding, it may execute
> bond_release_and_destroy() first which would release the last slave and
> destroy the bond device leaving the proc entry and thus we will get the
> following error (with dynamic debug on for bond_netdev_event to see the
> events order):
 ...
> Thus remove the proc entry manually if bond_release_and_destroy() is
> used. Because of the checks in bond_remove_proc_entry() it's not a
> problem for a bond device to change namespaces (the bug fixed by the
> Fixes commit) but since commit
> f9399814927ad ("bonding: Don't allow bond devices to change network
> namespaces.") that can't happen anyway.
> 
> Reported-by: Carol Soto <clsoto@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>
> Fixes: a64d49c3dd50 ("bonding: Manage /proc/net/bonding/ entries from
>                       the netdev events")

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.
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