netdev - Re: [PATCH REPOST 4/4] bonding: fix enslavement error unwinds

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Date:	Fri, 02 May 2008 18:07:21 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	fubar@...ibm.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, jgarzik@...ox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH REPOST 4/4] bonding: fix enslavement error unwinds 

From: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 18:06:02 -0700

> 
> 	As part of:
> 
> commit c2edacf80e155ef54ae4774379d461b60896bc2e
> Author: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com>
> Date:   Mon Jul 9 10:42:47 2007 -0700
> 
>     bonding / ipv6: no addrconf for slaves separately from master
> 
> two steps were rearranged in the enslavement process: netdev_set_master
> is now before the call to dev_open to open the slave.
> 
> 	This patch updates the error cases and unwind process at the
> end of bond_enslave to match the new order.  Without this patch, it is
> possible for the enslavement to fail, but leave the slave with IFF_SLAVE
> set in its flags.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com>

Thanks for fixing up the commit message:

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
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