netdev - Re: [PATCH] bonding: Do not try to send packets over dead link in TLB mode.

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Date:	Wed, 09 Jul 2014 15:17:29 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@...hat.com>
Cc:	Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...hat.com>,
	Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@...gle.com>,
	Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com>,
	Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Maciej Zenczykowski <maze@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bonding: Do not try to send packets over dead link in
 TLB mode.

On Wed, 2014-07-09 at 14:04 +0200, Veaceslav Falico wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 12:25:43PM +0200, Nikolay Aleksandrov wrote:
> >On 07/09/2014 12:24 PM, Veaceslav Falico wrote:
> >> On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 06:09:58PM -0700, Mahesh Bandewar wrote:
> ...snip...
> >>> +    spin_lock(&bond_info->slave_arr_lock);
> >>
> >> I don't think you can re-enter bond_alb_handle_link_change(), as it's
> >> protected either by rtnl or write-lock curr_active_slave.
> >>
> >Actually a very good catch :-)
> >Maybe the allocation above should be done with GFP_ATOMIC.
> 
> For the record - it's indeed always under rtnl, so ASSERT_RTNL() (from your
> other email) is a good idea.

Strange. I basically suggested the ASSERT_RTNL() to Mahesh few days ago
and he tried this. But the assert triggered with miimon, so Mahesh added
back the spinlock.



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