linux/drivers/net/bonding
Moni Shoua e36b9d16c6 bonding: clean muticast addresses when device changes type
Bonding device forbids slave device of different types under the same
master.

However, it is possible for a bonding master to change type during its
lifetime.  This can be either from ARPHRD_ETHER to ARPHRD_INFINIBAND
or the other way arround.  The change of type requires device level
multicast address cleanup because device level multicast addresses
depend on the device type.

The patch adds a call to dev_close() before the bonding master changes
type and dev_open() just after that.

In the example below I enslaved an IPoIB device (ib0) under
bond0. Since each bonding master starts as device of type ARPHRD_ETHER
by default, a change of type occurs when ib0 is enslaved.

This is how /proc/net/dev_mcast looks like without the patch

5    bond0           1     0     00ffffffff12601bffff000000000001ff96ca05
5    bond0           1     0     01005e000116
5    bond0           1     0     01005e7ffffd
5    bond0           1     0     01005e000001
5    bond0           1     0     333300000001
6    ib0             1     0     00ffffffff12601bffff000000000001ff96ca05
6    ib0             1     0     333300000001
6    ib0             1     0     01005e000001
6    ib0             1     0     01005e7ffffd
6    ib0             1     0     01005e000116
6    ib0             1     0     00ffffffff12401bffff00000000000000000001
6    ib0             1     0     00ffffffff12601bffff00000000000000000001

and this is how it looks like after the patch.

5    bond0           1     0     00ffffffff12601bffff000000000001ff96ca05
5    bond0           1     0     00ffffffff12601bffff00000000000000000001
5    bond0           1     0     00ffffffff12401bffff0000000000000ffffffd
5    bond0           1     0     00ffffffff12401bffff00000000000000000116
5    bond0           1     0     00ffffffff12401bffff00000000000000000001
6    ib0             1     0     00ffffffff12601bffff000000000001ff96ca05
6    ib0             1     0     00ffffffff12401bffff00000000000000000116
6    ib0             1     0     00ffffffff12401bffff0000000000000ffffffd
6    ib0             2     0     00ffffffff12401bffff00000000000000000001
6    ib0             2     0     00ffffffff12601bffff00000000000000000001

Signed-off-by: Moni Shoua <monis@voltaire.com>
Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-16 18:05:23 -07:00
..
bond_3ad.c Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2009-05-18 21:08:20 -07:00
bond_3ad.h Remove duplicate slow protocol define in bond_3ad.h 2009-05-09 13:15:49 -07:00
bond_alb.c bonding: fix alb mode locking regression 2009-05-04 21:28:10 -07:00
bond_alb.h Convert bonding timers to workqueues 2007-10-23 20:32:00 -04:00
bond_ipv6.c bonding: use pr_debug instead of own macros 2008-12-09 23:09:22 -08:00
bond_main.c bonding: clean muticast addresses when device changes type 2009-07-16 18:05:23 -07:00
bond_sysfs.c bonding: use is_zero_ether_addr 2009-06-13 23:29:03 -07:00
bonding.h bonding: fix destructor 2009-06-13 23:28:56 -07:00
Makefile bonding: send IPv6 neighbor advertisement on failover 2008-11-06 00:49:37 -05:00