netdev - Re: [PATCH] bonding: 802.3ad: make aggregator

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Date:	Mon, 17 Feb 2014 14:55:16 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jiri@...a.cz
Cc:	fubar@...ibm.com, vfalico@...hat.com, andy@...yhouse.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bonding: 802.3ad: make aggregator_identifier
 bond-private

From: Jiri Bohac <jiri@...a.cz>
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 18:13:50 +0100

> aggregator_identifier is used to assign unique aggregator identifiers
> to aggregators of a bond during device enslaving.
> 
> aggregator_identifier is currently a global variable that is zeroed in
> bond_3ad_initialize().
> 
> This sequence will lead to duplicate aggregator identifiers for eth1 and eth3:
> 
> create bond0
> change bond0 mode to 802.3ad
> enslave eth0 to bond0 		//eth0 gets agg id 1
> enslave eth1 to bond0 		//eth1 gets agg id 2
> create bond1
> change bond1 mode to 802.3ad
> enslave eth2 to bond1		//aggregator_identifier is reset to 0
> 				//eth2 gets agg id 1
> enslave eth3 to bond0 		//eth3 gets agg id 2
> 
> Fix this by making aggregator_identifier private to the bond.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@...e.cz>

Looks good, and I think this matches what the original author of this
code probably intended.

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.

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