Patch "net/bonding: Enforce active-backup policy for IPoIB bonds" has been added to the 4.7-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    net/bonding: Enforce active-backup policy for IPoIB bonds

to the 4.7-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     net-bonding-enforce-active-backup-policy-for-ipoib-bonds.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.7 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Fri Aug 12 09:34:44 CEST 2016
From: Mark Bloch <markb@mellanox.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 11:52:55 +0300
Subject: net/bonding: Enforce active-backup policy for IPoIB bonds

From: Mark Bloch <markb@mellanox.com>

[ Upstream commit 1533e77315220dc1d5ec3bd6d9fe32e2aa0a74c0 ]

When using an IPoIB bond currently only active-backup mode is a valid
use case and this commit strengthens it.

Since commit 2ab82852a270 ("net/bonding: Enable bonding to enslave
netdevices not supporting set_mac_address()") was introduced till
4.7-rc1, IPoIB didn't support the set_mac_address ndo, and hence the
fail over mac policy always applied to IPoIB bonds.

With the introduction of commit 492a7e67ff83 ("IB/IPoIB: Allow setting
the device address"), that doesn't hold and practically IPoIB bonds are
broken as of that. To fix it, lets go to fail over mac if the device
doesn't support the ndo OR this is IPoIB device.

As a by-product, this commit also prevents a stack corruption which
occurred when trying to copy 20 bytes (IPoIB) device address
to a sockaddr struct that has only 16 bytes of storage.

Signed-off-by: Mark Bloch <markb@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Andy Gospodarek <gospo@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c |   11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
@@ -1422,7 +1422,16 @@ int bond_enslave(struct net_device *bond
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
-	if (slave_ops->ndo_set_mac_address == NULL) {
+	if (slave_dev->type == ARPHRD_INFINIBAND &&
+	    BOND_MODE(bond) != BOND_MODE_ACTIVEBACKUP) {
+		netdev_warn(bond_dev, "Type (%d) supports only active-backup mode\n",
+			    slave_dev->type);
+		res = -EOPNOTSUPP;
+		goto err_undo_flags;
+	}
+
+	if (!slave_ops->ndo_set_mac_address ||
+	    slave_dev->type == ARPHRD_INFINIBAND) {
 		netdev_warn(bond_dev, "The slave device specified does not support setting the MAC address\n");
 		if (BOND_MODE(bond) == BOND_MODE_ACTIVEBACKUP &&
 		    bond->params.fail_over_mac != BOND_FOM_ACTIVE) {


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from markb@mellanox.com are

queue-4.7/net-bonding-enforce-active-backup-policy-for-ipoib-bonds.patch