netdev - [PATCHv2 net] bonding: fix multicast MAC address synchronization

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Message-ID: <20250805080936.39830-1-liuhangbin@gmail.com>
Date: Tue,  5 Aug 2025 08:09:36 +0000
From: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@...il.com>
To: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jv@...sburgh.net>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@...ckwall.org>,
	Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@...il.com>,
	Liang Li <liali@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCHv2 net] bonding: fix multicast MAC address synchronization

There is a corner case where the NS (Neighbor Solicitation) target is set to
an invalid or unreachable address. In such cases, all the slave links are
marked as down and set to *backup*. This causes the bond to add multicast MAC
addresses to all slaves. The ARP monitor then cycles through each slave to
probe them, temporarily marking as *active*.

Later, if the NS target is changed or cleared during this probe cycle, the
*active* slave will fail to remove its NS multicast address because
bond_slave_ns_maddrs_del() only removes addresses from backup slaves.
This leaves stale multicast MACs on the interface.

To fix this, we move the NS multicast MAC address handling into
bond_set_slave_state(), so every slave state transition consistently
adds/removes NS multicast addresses as needed.

We also ensure this logic is only active when arp_interval is configured,
to prevent misconfiguration or accidental behavior in unsupported modes.

Note: Cleanup in __bond_release_one() is retained to remove addresses
when the slave is unbound from the bond.

Fixes: 8eb36164d1a6 ("bonding: add ns target multicast address to slave device")
Reported-by: Liang Li <liali@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@...il.com>
---
v2:
1) Make sure arp_interval is set befer setting slave mac address.
2) add comment about why we need to set slave->backup between two if blocks
3) update commit description
---
 drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c    |  9 ---------
 drivers/net/bonding/bond_options.c |  1 +
 include/net/bonding.h              | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
index 257333c88710..283615d8a3fd 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
@@ -1003,8 +1003,6 @@ static void bond_hw_addr_swap(struct bonding *bond, struct slave *new_active,
 
 		if (bond->dev->flags & IFF_UP)
 			bond_hw_addr_flush(bond->dev, old_active->dev);
-
-		bond_slave_ns_maddrs_add(bond, old_active);
 	}
 
 	if (new_active) {
@@ -1021,8 +1019,6 @@ static void bond_hw_addr_swap(struct bonding *bond, struct slave *new_active,
 			dev_mc_sync(new_active->dev, bond->dev);
 			netif_addr_unlock_bh(bond->dev);
 		}
-
-		bond_slave_ns_maddrs_del(bond, new_active);
 	}
 }
 
@@ -2373,11 +2369,6 @@ int bond_enslave(struct net_device *bond_dev, struct net_device *slave_dev,
 	bond_compute_features(bond);
 	bond_set_carrier(bond);
 
-	/* Needs to be called before bond_select_active_slave(), which will
-	 * remove the maddrs if the slave is selected as active slave.
-	 */
-	bond_slave_ns_maddrs_add(bond, new_slave);
-
 	if (bond_uses_primary(bond)) {
 		block_netpoll_tx();
 		bond_select_active_slave(bond);
diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_options.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_options.c
index 1d639a3be6ba..f54386982198 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_options.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_options.c
@@ -1264,6 +1264,7 @@ static int bond_option_arp_ip_targets_set(struct bonding *bond,
 static bool slave_can_set_ns_maddr(const struct bonding *bond, struct slave *slave)
 {
 	return BOND_MODE(bond) == BOND_MODE_ACTIVEBACKUP &&
+	       bond->params.arp_interval &&
 	       !bond_is_active_slave(slave) &&
 	       slave->dev->flags & IFF_MULTICAST;
 }
diff --git a/include/net/bonding.h b/include/net/bonding.h
index e06f0d63b2c1..951d752a5301 100644
--- a/include/net/bonding.h
+++ b/include/net/bonding.h
@@ -388,7 +388,24 @@ static inline void bond_set_slave_state(struct slave *slave,
 	if (slave->backup == slave_state)
 		return;
 
+	/*
+	 * The slave->backup assignment must occur between the two if blocks.
+	 * This is because bond_slave_ns_maddrs_{add,del} only operate on
+	 * backup slaves:
+	 *
+	 * - If the slave is transitioning to active, we must call
+	 *   bond_slave_ns_maddrs_del() *before* updating the backup flag.
+	 * - If transitioning to backup, we must call
+	 *   bond_slave_ns_maddrs_add() *after* setting the flag.
+	 */
+	if (slave_state == BOND_STATE_ACTIVE)
+		bond_slave_ns_maddrs_del(slave->bond, slave);
+
 	slave->backup = slave_state;
+
+	if (slave_state == BOND_STATE_BACKUP)
+		bond_slave_ns_maddrs_add(slave->bond, slave);
+
 	if (notify) {
 		bond_lower_state_changed(slave);
 		bond_queue_slave_event(slave);
-- 
2.46.0