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

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Date:   Wed, 26 Sep 2018 20:24:24 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     mahesh@...dewar.net
Cc:     j.vosburgh@...il.com, andy@...yhouse.net, vfalico@...il.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, edumazet@...gle.com, maheshb@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] bonding: pass link-local packets to bonding master
 also.

From: Mahesh Bandewar <mahesh@...dewar.net>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2018 14:39:42 -0700

> 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.
> 
> Fixes: b89f04c61efe ("bonding: deliver link-local packets with skb->dev set to link that packets arrived on")
> Reported-by: Michal Soltys <soltys@....info>
> Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@...gle.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable.