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SubjectRE: [PATCH net v2 5/5] hv_netvsc: fix bonding devices check in netvsc_netdev_event()
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vitaly Kuznetsov [mailto:vkuznets@redhat.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 15, 2016 11:49 AM
> To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: devel@linuxdriverproject.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Haiyang
> Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>; KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>;
> Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
> Subject: [PATCH net v2 5/5] hv_netvsc: fix bonding devices check in
> netvsc_netdev_event()
>
> Bonding driver sets IFF_BONDING on both master (the bonding device) and
> slave (the real NIC) devices and in netvsc_netdev_event() we want to skip
> master devices only. Currently, there is an uncertainty when a slave
> interface is removed: if bonding module comes first in netdev_chain it
> clears IFF_BONDING flag on the netdev and netvsc_netdev_event()
> correctly
> handles NETDEV_UNREGISTER event, but in case netvsc comes first on the
> chain it sees the device with IFF_BONDING still attached and skips it. As
> we still hold vf_netdev pointer to the device we crash on the next inject.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>

Thanks!

Acked-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>

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