kernel/linux.git/include/net/bonding.h, branch v7.0-rc7

bpf/bonding: reject vlan+srcmac xmit_hash_policy change when XDP is loaded

2026-03-03T09:47:37+00:00

bond_option_mode_set() already rejects mode changes that would make a loaded XDP program incompatible via bond_xdp_check(). However, bond_option_xmit_hash_policy_set() has no such guard. For 802.3ad and balance-xor modes, bond_xdp_check() returns false when xmit_hash_policy is vlan+srcmac, because the 802.1q payload is usually absent due to hardware offload. This means a user can: 1. Attach a native XDP program to a bond in 802.3ad/balance-xor mode with a compatible xmit_hash_policy (e.g. layer2+3). 2. Change xmit_hash_policy to vlan+srcmac while XDP remains loaded. This leaves bond->xdp_prog set but bond_xdp_check() now returning false for the same device. When the bond is later destroyed, dev_xdp_uninstall() calls bond_xdp_set(dev, NULL, NULL) to remove the program, which hits the bond_xdp_check() guard and returns -EOPNOTSUPP, triggering: WARN_ON(dev_xdp_install(dev, mode, bpf_op, NULL, 0, NULL)) Fix this by rejecting xmit_hash_policy changes to vlan+srcmac when an XDP program is loaded on a bond in 802.3ad or balance-xor mode. commit 39a0876d595b ("net, bonding: Disallow vlan+srcmac with XDP") introduced bond_xdp_check() which returns false for 802.3ad/balance-xor modes when xmit_hash_policy is vlan+srcmac. The check was wired into bond_xdp_set() to reject XDP attachment with an incompatible policy, but the symmetric path -- preventing xmit_hash_policy from being changed to an incompatible value after XDP is already loaded -- was left unguarded in bond_option_xmit_hash_policy_set(). Note: commit 094ee6017ea0 ("bonding: check xdp prog when set bond mode") later added a similar guard to bond_option_mode_set(), but bond_option_xmit_hash_policy_set() remained unprotected. Reported-by: syzbot+5a287bcdc08104bc3132@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/6995aff6.050a0220.2eeac1.014e.GAE@google.com/T/ Fixes: 39a0876d595b ("net, bonding: Disallow vlan+srcmac with XDP") Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260226080306.98766-2-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net

2026-01-30T01:28:54+00:00

Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-6.19-rc8). No adjacent changes, conflicts: drivers/net/ethernet/spacemit/k1_emac.c 2c84959167d64 ("net: spacemit: Check for netif_carrier_ok() in emac_stats_update()") f66086798f91f ("net: spacemit: Remove broken flow control support") https://lore.kernel.org/aXjAqZA3iEWD_DGM@sirena.org.uk Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

bonding: annotate data-races around slave->last_rx

2026-01-23T21:55:56+00:00

slave->last_rx and slave->target_last_arp_rx[...] can be read and written locklessly. Add READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() annotations. syzbot reported: BUG: KCSAN: data-race in bond_rcv_validate / bond_rcv_validate write to 0xffff888149f0d428 of 8 bytes by interrupt on cpu 1: bond_rcv_validate+0x202/0x7a0 drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:3335 bond_handle_frame+0xde/0x5e0 drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:1533 __netif_receive_skb_core+0x5b1/0x1950 net/core/dev.c:6039 __netif_receive_skb_one_core net/core/dev.c:6150 [inline] __netif_receive_skb+0x59/0x270 net/core/dev.c:6265 netif_receive_skb_internal net/core/dev.c:6351 [inline] netif_receive_skb+0x4b/0x2d0 net/core/dev.c:6410 ... write to 0xffff888149f0d428 of 8 bytes by interrupt on cpu 0: bond_rcv_validate+0x202/0x7a0 drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:3335 bond_handle_frame+0xde/0x5e0 drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:1533 __netif_receive_skb_core+0x5b1/0x1950 net/core/dev.c:6039 __netif_receive_skb_one_core net/core/dev.c:6150 [inline] __netif_receive_skb+0x59/0x270 net/core/dev.c:6265 netif_receive_skb_internal net/core/dev.c:6351 [inline] netif_receive_skb+0x4b/0x2d0 net/core/dev.c:6410 br_netif_receive_skb net/bridge/br_input.c:30 [inline] NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:318 [inline] ... value changed: 0x0000000100005365 -> 0x0000000100005366 Fixes: f5b2b966f032 ("[PATCH] bonding: Validate probe replies in ARP monitor") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reported-by: syzbot Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260122162914.2299312-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: bonding: use workqueue to make sure peer notify updated in lacp mode

2026-01-22T10:20:33+00:00

The rtnl lock might be locked, preventing ad_cond_set_peer_notif() from acquiring the lock and updating send_peer_notif. This patch addresses the issue by using a workqueue. Since updating send_peer_notif does not require high real-time performance, such delayed updates are entirely acceptable. In fact, checking this value and using it in multiple places, all operations are protected at the same time by rtnl lock, such as - read send_peer_notif - send_peer_notif-- - bond_should_notify_peers By the way, rtnl lock is still required, when accessing bond.params.* for updating send_peer_notif. In lacp mode, resetting send_peer_notif in workqueue is safe, simple and effective way. Additionally, this patch introduces bond_peer_notify_may_events(), which is used to check whether an event should be sent. This function will be used in both patch 1 and 2. Cc: Jay Vosburgh Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: Jakub Kicinski Cc: Paolo Abeni Cc: Simon Horman Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Andrew Lunn Cc: Nikolay Aleksandrov Cc: Hangbin Liu Cc: Jason Xing Suggested-by: Hangbin Liu Signed-off-by: Tonghao Zhang Reviewed-by: Hangbin Liu Link: https://patch.msgid.link/f95accb5db0b10ce3ed2f834fc70f716c9abbb9c.1768709239.git.tonghao@bamaicloud.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net

2025-10-01T08:14:49+00:00

Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-6.17-rc8). Conflicts: tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/bonding/Makefile 87951b566446 selftests: bonding: add test for passive LACP mode c2377f1763e9 selftests: bonding: add test for LACP actor port priority Adjacent changes: drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.h fca3dc859b20 net: macb: remove illusion about TBQPH/RBQPH being per-queue 89934dbf169e net: macb: Add TAPRIO traffic scheduling support drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c fca3dc859b20 net: macb: remove illusion about TBQPH/RBQPH being per-queue 89934dbf169e net: macb: Add TAPRIO traffic scheduling support Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

bonding: fix xfrm offload feature setup on active-backup mode

2025-09-30T07:55:11+00:00

The active-backup bonding mode supports XFRM ESP offload. However, when a bond is added using command like `ip link add bond0 type bond mode 1 miimon 100`, the `ethtool -k` command shows that the XFRM ESP offload is disabled. This occurs because, in bond_newlink(), we change bond link first and register bond device later. So the XFRM feature update in bond_option_mode_set() is not called as the bond device is not yet registered, leading to the offload feature not being set successfully. To resolve this issue, we can modify the code order in bond_newlink() to ensure that the bond device is registered first before changing the bond link parameters. This change will allow the XFRM ESP offload feature to be correctly enabled. Fixes: 007ab5345545 ("bonding: fix feature flag setting at init time") Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250925023304.472186-1-liuhangbin@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

bonding: Remove support for use_carrier

2025-09-02T21:01:54+00:00

Remove the implementation of use_carrier, the link monitoring method that utilizes ethtool or ioctl to determine the link state of an interface in a bond. Bonding will always behaves as if use_carrier=1, which relies on netif_carrier_ok() to determine the link state of interfaces. To avoid acquiring RTNL many times per second, bonding inspects link state under RCU, but not under RTNL. However, ethtool implementations in drivers may sleep, and therefore this strategy is unsuitable for use with calls into driver ethtool functions. The use_carrier option was introduced in 2003, to provide backwards compatibility for network device drivers that did not support the then-new netif_carrier_ok/on/off system. Device drivers are now expected to support netif_carrier_*, and the use_carrier backwards compatibility logic is no longer necessary. The option itself remains, but when queried always returns 1, and may only be set to 1. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/000000000000eb54bf061cfd666a@google.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20240718122017.d2e33aaac43a.I10ab9c9ded97163aef4e4de10985cd8f7de60d28@changeid Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh Reported-by: syzbot+b8c48ea38ca27d150063@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev Link: https://patch.msgid.link/2029487.1756512517@famine Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: bonding: add broadcast_neighbor option for 802.3ad

2025-07-08T08:59:41+00:00

Stacking technology is a type of technology used to expand ports on Ethernet switches. It is widely used as a common access method in large-scale Internet data center architectures. Years of practice have proved that stacking technology has advantages and disadvantages in high-reliability network architecture scenarios. For instance, in stacking networking arch, conventional switch system upgrades require multiple stacked devices to restart at the same time. Therefore, it is inevitable that the business will be interrupted for a while. It is for this reason that "no-stacking" in data centers has become a trend. Additionally, when the stacking link connecting the switches fails or is abnormal, the stack will split. Although it is not common, it still happens in actual operation. The problem is that after the split, it is equivalent to two switches with the same configuration appearing in the network, causing network configuration conflicts and ultimately interrupting the services carried by the stacking system. To improve network stability, "non-stacking" solutions have been increasingly adopted, particularly by public cloud providers and tech companies like Alibaba, Tencent, and Didi. "non-stacking" is a method of mimicing switch stacking that convinces a LACP peer, bonding in this case, connected to a set of "non-stacked" switches that all of its ports are connected to a single switch (i.e., LACP aggregator), as if those switches were stacked. This enables the LACP peer's ports to aggregate together, and requires (a) special switch configuration, described in the linked article, and (b) modifications to the bonding 802.3ad (LACP) mode to send all ARP/ND packets across all ports of the active aggregator. Note that, with multiple aggregators, the current broadcast mode logic will send only packets to the selected aggregator(s). +-----------+ +-----------+ | switch1 | | switch2 | +-----------+ +-----------+ ^ ^ | | +-----------------+ | bond4 lacp | +-----------------+ | | | NIC1 | NIC2 +-----------------+ | server | +-----------------+ - https://www.ruijie.com/fr-fr/support/tech-gallery/de-stack-data-center-network-architecture/ Cc: Jay Vosburgh Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: Jakub Kicinski Cc: Paolo Abeni Cc: Simon Horman Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Andrew Lunn Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Nikolay Aleksandrov Signed-off-by: Tonghao Zhang Signed-off-by: Zengbing Tu Link: https://patch.msgid.link/84d0a044514157bb856a10b6d03a1028c4883561.1751031306.git.tonghao@bamaicloud.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

bonding: check xdp prog when set bond mode

2025-03-25T15:00:09+00:00

Following operations can trigger a warning[1]: ip netns add ns1 ip netns exec ns1 ip link add bond0 type bond mode balance-rr ip netns exec ns1 ip link set dev bond0 xdp obj af_xdp_kern.o sec xdp ip netns exec ns1 ip link set bond0 type bond mode broadcast ip netns del ns1 When delete the namespace, dev_xdp_uninstall() is called to remove xdp program on bond dev, and bond_xdp_set() will check the bond mode. If bond mode is changed after attaching xdp program, the warning may occur. Some bond modes (broadcast, etc.) do not support native xdp. Set bond mode with xdp program attached is not good. Add check for xdp program when set bond mode. [1] ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 11 at net/core/dev.c:9912 unregister_netdevice_many_notify+0x8d9/0x930 Modules linked in: CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 11 Comm: kworker/u4:0 Not tainted 6.14.0-rc4 #107 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.15.0-0-g2dd4b9b3f840-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 Workqueue: netns cleanup_net RIP: 0010:unregister_netdevice_many_notify+0x8d9/0x930 Code: 00 00 48 c7 c6 6f e3 a2 82 48 c7 c7 d0 b3 96 82 e8 9c 10 3e ... RSP: 0018:ffffc90000063d80 EFLAGS: 00000282 RAX: 00000000ffffffa1 RBX: ffff888004959000 RCX: 00000000ffffdfff RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000ffffffea RDI: ffffc90000063b48 RBP: ffffc90000063e28 R08: ffffffff82d39b28 R09: 0000000000009ffb R10: 0000000000000175 R11: ffffffff82d09b40 R12: ffff8880049598e8 R13: 0000000000000001 R14: dead000000000100 R15: ffffc90000045000 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888007a00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 000000000d406b60 CR3: 000000000483e000 CR4: 00000000000006f0 Call Trace: ? __warn+0x83/0x130 ? unregister_netdevice_many_notify+0x8d9/0x930 ? report_bug+0x18e/0x1a0 ? handle_bug+0x54/0x90 ? exc_invalid_op+0x18/0x70 ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x20 ? unregister_netdevice_many_notify+0x8d9/0x930 ? bond_net_exit_batch_rtnl+0x5c/0x90 cleanup_net+0x237/0x3d0 process_one_work+0x163/0x390 worker_thread+0x293/0x3b0 ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10 kthread+0xec/0x1e0 ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 ret_from_fork+0x2f/0x50 ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- Fixes: 9e2ee5c7e7c3 ("net, bonding: Add XDP support to the bonding driver") Signed-off-by: Wang Liang Acked-by: Jussi Maki Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250321044852.1086551-1-wangliang74@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

bonding: change ipsec_lock from spin lock to mutex

2024-08-27T20:11:37+00:00

In the cited commit, bond->ipsec_lock is added to protect ipsec_list, hence xdo_dev_state_add and xdo_dev_state_delete are called inside this lock. As ipsec_lock is a spin lock and such xfrmdev ops may sleep, "scheduling while atomic" will be triggered when changing bond's active slave. [ 101.055189] BUG: scheduling while atomic: bash/902/0x00000200 [ 101.055726] Modules linked in: [ 101.058211] CPU: 3 PID: 902 Comm: bash Not tainted 6.9.0-rc4+ #1 [ 101.058760] Hardware name: [ 101.059434] Call Trace: [ 101.059436] [ 101.060873] dump_stack_lvl+0x51/0x60 [ 101.061275] __schedule_bug+0x4e/0x60 [ 101.061682] __schedule+0x612/0x7c0 [ 101.062078] ? __mod_timer+0x25c/0x370 [ 101.062486] schedule+0x25/0xd0 [ 101.062845] schedule_timeout+0x77/0xf0 [ 101.063265] ? asm_common_interrupt+0x22/0x40 [ 101.063724] ? __bpf_trace_itimer_state+0x10/0x10 [ 101.064215] __wait_for_common+0x87/0x190 [ 101.064648] ? usleep_range_state+0x90/0x90 [ 101.065091] cmd_exec+0x437/0xb20 [mlx5_core] [ 101.065569] mlx5_cmd_do+0x1e/0x40 [mlx5_core] [ 101.066051] mlx5_cmd_exec+0x18/0x30 [mlx5_core] [ 101.066552] mlx5_crypto_create_dek_key+0xea/0x120 [mlx5_core] [ 101.067163] ? bonding_sysfs_store_option+0x4d/0x80 [bonding] [ 101.067738] ? kmalloc_trace+0x4d/0x350 [ 101.068156] mlx5_ipsec_create_sa_ctx+0x33/0x100 [mlx5_core] [ 101.068747] mlx5e_xfrm_add_state+0x47b/0xaa0 [mlx5_core] [ 101.069312] bond_change_active_slave+0x392/0x900 [bonding] [ 101.069868] bond_option_active_slave_set+0x1c2/0x240 [bonding] [ 101.070454] __bond_opt_set+0xa6/0x430 [bonding] [ 101.070935] __bond_opt_set_notify+0x2f/0x90 [bonding] [ 101.071453] bond_opt_tryset_rtnl+0x72/0xb0 [bonding] [ 101.071965] bonding_sysfs_store_option+0x4d/0x80 [bonding] [ 101.072567] kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x10c/0x1a0 [ 101.073033] vfs_write+0x2d8/0x400 [ 101.073416] ? alloc_fd+0x48/0x180 [ 101.073798] ksys_write+0x5f/0xe0 [ 101.074175] do_syscall_64+0x52/0x110 [ 101.074576] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53 As bond_ipsec_add_sa_all and bond_ipsec_del_sa_all are only called from bond_change_active_slave, which requires holding the RTNL lock. And bond_ipsec_add_sa and bond_ipsec_del_sa are xfrm state xdo_dev_state_add and xdo_dev_state_delete APIs, which are in user context. So ipsec_lock doesn't have to be spin lock, change it to mutex, and thus the above issue can be resolved. Fixes: 9a5605505d9c ("bonding: Add struct bond_ipesc to manage SA") Signed-off-by: Jianbo Liu Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan Reviewed-by: Hangbin Liu Acked-by: Jay Vosburgh Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240823031056.110999-4-jianbol@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski