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bonding: Don't update slave->link until ready to commit 

In the loadbalance arp monitoring scheme, when a slave link change is
detected, the slave->link is immediately updated and slave_state_changed
is set. Later down the function, the rtnl_lock is acquired and the
changes are committed, updating the bond link state.

However, the acquisition of the rtnl_lock can fail. The next time the
monitor runs, since slave->link is already updated, it determines that
link is unchanged. This results in the bond link state permanently out
of sync with the slave link.

This patch modifies bond_loadbalance_arp_mon() to handle link changes
identical to bond_ab_arp_{inspect/commit}(). The new link state is
maintained in slave->new_link until we're ready to commit at which point
it's copied into slave->link.

NOTE: miimon_{inspect/commit}() has a more complex state machine
requiring the use of the bond_{propose,commit}_link_state() functions
which maintains the intermediate state in slave->link_new_state. The arp
monitors don't require that.

Testing: This bug is very easy to reproduce with the following steps.
1. In a loop, toggle a slave link of a bond slave interface.
2. In a separate loop, do ifconfig up/down of an unrelated interface to
create contention for rtnl_lock.
Within a few iterations, the bond link goes out of sync with the slave
link.

Signed-off-by: Nithin Nayak Sujir <nsujir@tintri.com>
Cc: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Nithin Sujir 2017-05-24 19:45:17 -07:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent 791caeb084
commit 797a93647a
1 changed files with 9 additions and 2 deletions
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drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
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@ -2612,11 +2612,13 @@ static void bond_loadbalance_arp_mon(struct bonding *bond)
bond_for_each_slave_rcu(bond, slave, iter) {
unsigned long trans_start = dev_trans_start(slave->dev);
slave->new_link = BOND_LINK_NOCHANGE;
if (slave->link != BOND_LINK_UP) {
if (bond_time_in_interval(bond, trans_start, 1) &&
bond_time_in_interval(bond, slave->last_rx, 1)) {
slave->link = BOND_LINK_UP;
slave->new_link = BOND_LINK_UP;
slave_state_changed = 1;
/* primary_slave has no meaning in round-robin
@ -2643,7 +2645,7 @@ static void bond_loadbalance_arp_mon(struct bonding *bond)
if (!bond_time_in_interval(bond, trans_start, 2) ||
!bond_time_in_interval(bond, slave->last_rx, 2)) {
slave->link = BOND_LINK_DOWN;
slave->new_link = BOND_LINK_DOWN;
slave_state_changed = 1;
if (slave->link_failure_count < UINT_MAX)
@ -2674,6 +2676,11 @@ static void bond_loadbalance_arp_mon(struct bonding *bond)
if (!rtnl_trylock())
goto re_arm;
bond_for_each_slave(bond, slave, iter) {
if (slave->new_link != BOND_LINK_NOCHANGE)
slave->link = slave->new_link;
}
if (slave_state_changed) {
bond_slave_state_change(bond);
if (BOND_MODE(bond) == BOND_MODE_XOR)