netdev - Re: [PATCH v3] bonding: force enable lacp port after link state recovery for 802.3ad

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Date:   Tue, 24 Sep 2019 15:56:50 +0200 (CEST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     zhangsha.zhang@...wei.com
Cc:     jay.vosburgh@...onical.com, vfalico@...il.com, andy@...yhouse.net,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        yuehaibing@...wei.com, hunongda@...wei.com, alex.chen@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] bonding: force enable lacp port after link state
 recovery for 802.3ad

From: <zhangsha.zhang@...wei.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 21:06:20 +0800

> From: Sha Zhang <zhangsha.zhang@...wei.com>
> 
> After the commit 334031219a84 ("bonding/802.3ad: fix slave link
> initialization transition states") merged,
> the slave's link status will be changed to BOND_LINK_FAIL
> from BOND_LINK_DOWN in the following scenario:
> - Driver reports loss of carrier and
>   bonding driver receives NETDEV_DOWN notifier
> - slave's duplex and speed is zerod and
>   its port->is_enabled is cleard to 'false';
> - Driver reports link recovery and
>   bonding driver receives NETDEV_UP notifier;
> - If speed/duplex getting failed here, the link status
>   will be changed to BOND_LINK_FAIL;
> - The MII monotor later recover the slave's speed/duplex
>   and set link status to BOND_LINK_UP, but remains
>   the 'port->is_enabled' to 'false'.
> 
> In this scenario, the lacp port will not be enabled even its speed
> and duplex are valid. The bond will not send LACPDU's, and its
> state is 'AD_STATE_DEFAULTED' forever. The simplest fix I think
> is to call bond_3ad_handle_link_change() in bond_miimon_commit,
> this function can enable lacp after port slave speed check.
> As enabled, the lacp port can run its state machine normally
> after link recovery.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sha Zhang <zhangsha.zhang@...wei.com>

Please work out with Jay and Aleksei how to properly fix this.