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authorFernando Fernandez Mancera <ffmancera@riseup.net>2021-12-21 14:13:45 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2021-12-29 14:25:57 +0300
commitc6d2754006c1b75d981dd1b3e4432eaafde81373 (patch)
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parent6809da5185141e61401da5b01896b79a4deed1ad (diff)
downloadlinux-c6d2754006c1b75d981dd1b3e4432eaafde81373.tar.xz
bonding: fix ad_actor_system option setting to default
[ Upstream commit 1c15b05baea71a5ff98235783e3e4ad227760876 ] When 802.3ad bond mode is configured the ad_actor_system option is set to "00:00:00:00:00:00". But when trying to set the all-zeroes MAC as actors' system address it was failing with EINVAL. An all-zeroes ethernet address is valid, only multicast addresses are not valid values. Fixes: 171a42c38c6e ("bonding: add netlink support for sys prio, actor sys mac, and port key") Signed-off-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera <ffmancera@riseup.net> Acked-by: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211221111345.2462-1-ffmancera@riseup.net Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/bonding.rst b/Documentation/networking/bonding.rst
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@@ -196,11 +196,12 @@ ad_actor_sys_prio
ad_actor_system
In an AD system, this specifies the mac-address for the actor in
- protocol packet exchanges (LACPDUs). The value cannot be NULL or
- multicast. It is preferred to have the local-admin bit set for this
- mac but driver does not enforce it. If the value is not given then
- system defaults to using the masters' mac address as actors' system
- address.
+ protocol packet exchanges (LACPDUs). The value cannot be a multicast
+ address. If the all-zeroes MAC is specified, bonding will internally
+ use the MAC of the bond itself. It is preferred to have the
+ local-admin bit set for this mac but driver does not enforce it. If
+ the value is not given then system defaults to using the masters'
+ mac address as actors' system address.
This parameter has effect only in 802.3ad mode and is available through
SysFs interface.