netdev - Re: [PATCH net v3 0/3] bonding: properly restore flags when bond changes ether type

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Message-ID: <0cfd57e7-2993-1bba-1918-022fe0e70930@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed, 15 Mar 2023 10:44:26 -0400
From:   Jonathan Toppins <jtoppins@...hat.com>
To:     Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@...ckwall.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     monis@...taire.com, syoshida@...hat.com, j.vosburgh@...il.com,
        andy@...yhouse.net, kuba@...nel.org, davem@...emloft.net,
        pabeni@...hat.com, edumazet@...gle.com,
        syzbot+9dfc3f3348729cc82277@...kaller.appspotmail.com,
        michal.kubiak@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v3 0/3] bonding: properly restore flags when bond
 changes ether type

On 3/15/23 07:18, Nikolay Aleksandrov wrote:
> Hi,
> A bug was reported by syzbot[1] that causes a warning and a myriad of
> other potential issues if a bond, that is also a slave, fails to enslave a
> non-eth device. While fixing that bug I found that we have the same
> issues when such enslave passes and after that the bond changes back to
> ARPHRD_ETHER (again due to ether_setup). This set fixes all issues by
> extracting the ether_setup() sequence in a helper which does the right
> thing about bond flags when it needs to change back to ARPHRD_ETHER. It
> also adds selftests for these cases.
> 
> Patch 01 adds the new bond_ether_setup helper and fixes the issues when a
> bond device changes its ether type due to successful enslave. Patch 02
> fixes the issues when it changes its ether type due to an unsuccessful
> enslave. Note we need two patches because the bugs were introduced by
> different commits. Patch 03 adds the new selftests.
> 
> Due to the comment adjustment and squash, could you please review
> patch 01 again? I've kept the other acks since there were no code
> changes.
> 
> v3: squash the helper patch and the first fix, adjust the comment above
>      it to be explicit about the bond device, no code changes
> v2: new set, all patches are new due to new approach of fixing these bugs
> 
> Thanks,
>   Nik
> 
> [1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=391c7b1f6522182899efba27d891f1743e8eb3ef
> 
> Nikolay Aleksandrov (3):
>    bonding: restore IFF_MASTER/SLAVE flags on bond enslave ether type
>      change
>    bonding: restore bond's IFF_SLAVE flag if a non-eth dev enslave fails
>    selftests: bonding: add tests for ether type changes
> 
>   drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c               | 23 +++--
>   .../selftests/drivers/net/bonding/Makefile    |  3 +-
>   .../net/bonding/bond-eth-type-change.sh       | 85 +++++++++++++++++++
>   3 files changed, 103 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>   create mode 100755 tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/bonding/bond-eth-type-change.sh
> 

    For the series.
Acked-by: Jonathan Toppins <jtoppins@...hat.com>