netdev - Re: [PATCH net] bonding: ARP monitor spams NETDEV_NOTIFY

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Date:   Fri, 17 Jun 2022 09:46:01 -0400
From:   Jonathan Toppins <jtoppins@...hat.com>
To:     Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@...onical.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        dingtianhong <dingtianhong@...wei.com>
Cc:     Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@...il.com>,
        Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] bonding: ARP monitor spams NETDEV_NOTIFY_PEERS
 notifiers

On 6/16/22 15:32, Jay Vosburgh wrote:
> 	 The bonding ARP monitor fails to decrement send_peer_notif, the
> number of peer notifications (gratuitous ARP or ND) to be sent. This
> results in a continuous series of notifications.
> 
> 	Correct this by decrementing the counter for each notification.
> 
> Reported-by: Jonathan Toppins <jtoppins@...hat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@...onical.com>
> Fixes: b0929915e035 ("bonding: Fix RTNL: assertion failed at net/core/rtnetlink.c for ab arp monitor")
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/b2fd4147-8f50-bebd-963a-1a3e8d1d9715@redhat.com/

Jay, this works great. Thanks.

Tested-By: Jonathan Toppins <jtoppins@...hat.com>
Reviewed-By: Jonathan Toppins <jtoppins@...hat.com>