netdev - Re: [PATCH next] bonding: pass link-local packets to bonding master also.

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Date:   Tue, 17 Jul 2018 11:32:11 +0200
From:   Michal Soltys <soltys@....info>
To:     Mahesh Bandewar (महेश बंडेवार) <maheshb@...gle.com>,
        Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@...onical.com>
Cc:     Mahesh Bandewar <mahesh@...dewar.net>,
        Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>,
        Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@...il.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH next] bonding: pass link-local packets to bonding master
 also.

On 07/17/2018 01:53 AM, Mahesh Bandewar (महेश बंडेवार) wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 2:24 PM, Jay Vosburgh
> <jay.vosburgh@...onical.com> wrote:
>> Mahesh Bandewar <mahesh@...dewar.net> wrote:
>>
>>> From: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@...gle.com>
>>>
>>> Commit b89f04c61efe ("bonding: deliver link-local packets with
>>> skb->dev set to link that packets arrived on") changed the behavior
>>> of how link-local-multicast packets are processed. The change in
>>> the behavior broke some legacy use cases where these packets are
>>> expected to arrive on bonding master device also.
>>>
>>> This patch passes the packet to the stack with the link it arrived
>>> on as well as passes to the bonding-master device to preserve the
>>> legacy use case.
>>
>>          Michal, can you test this?  I'm travelling this week and won't
>> be able to run the patch.


Yes, will test today and report.