linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv2 net-next] bonding: report duplicate MAC address in all situations

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <2907ae61-5e67-4db7-89df-821da999fbf1@blackwall.org>
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2025 11:47:15 +0200
From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@...ckwall.org>
To: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jv@...sburgh.net>, Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>,
 "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
 Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 net-next] bonding: report duplicate MAC address in all
 situations

On 2/25/25 05:39, Hangbin Liu wrote:
> Normally, a bond uses the MAC address of the first added slave as the bond’s
> MAC address. And the bond will set active slave’s MAC address to bond’s
> address if fail_over_mac is set to none (0) or follow (2).
> 
> When the first slave is removed, the bond will still use the removed slave’s
> MAC address, which can lead to a duplicate MAC address and potentially cause
> issues with the switch. To avoid confusion, let's warn the user in all
> situations, including when fail_over_mac is set to 2 or not in active-backup
> mode.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@...il.com>
> ---
> 
> v2: add fail_over_mac != BOND_FOM_ACTIVE to condition (Jakub Kicinski)
> 
> ---
>  drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
> index 7d716e90a84c..7d98fee5a27f 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
> @@ -2548,7 +2548,7 @@ static int __bond_release_one(struct net_device *bond_dev,
>  
>  	RCU_INIT_POINTER(bond->current_arp_slave, NULL);
>  
> -	if (!all && (!bond->params.fail_over_mac ||
> +	if (!all && (bond->params.fail_over_mac != BOND_FOM_ACTIVE ||
>  		     BOND_MODE(bond) != BOND_MODE_ACTIVEBACKUP)) {
>  		if (ether_addr_equal_64bits(bond_dev->dev_addr, slave->perm_hwaddr) &&
>  		    bond_has_slaves(bond))

LGTM,
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@...ckwall.org>