Re: [PATCH net-next 2/4] bonding: do not save non-existent device to bond primary in check params

[Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 07:20:39PM +0800, Ding Tianhong wrote:
>When install the bonding, the primay will be use to distinguish
>the primary slave for ab, alb and tlb mode, but it is meanless
>to save a no existed device, so add check for it.

Same remark as for the sysfs patch - we can have arbitrary name of the
interface in the paramter.

>
>Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com>
>---
> drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 20 +++++++++++++-------
> 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
>index de646e2..651c5fd 100644
>--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
>+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
>@@ -4246,13 +4246,19 @@ static int bond_check_params(struct bond_params *params)
> 		pr_debug("Warning: either miimon or arp_interval and arp_ip_target module parameters must be specified, otherwise bonding will not detect link failures! see bonding.txt for details.\n");
> 	}
>
>-	if (primary && !USES_PRIMARY(bond_mode)) {
>-		/* currently, using a primary only makes sense
>-		 * in active backup, TLB or ALB modes
>-		 */
>-		pr_warning("Warning: %s primary device specified but has no effect in %s mode\n",
>-			   primary, bond_mode_name(bond_mode));
>-		primary = NULL;
>+	if (primary) {
>+		if (!__dev_get_by_name(&init_net, primary)) {
>+			pr_warn("Warning: %s primary device is not exist\n",
>+				primary);
>+			primary = NULL;
>+		} else if (!USES_PRIMARY(bond_mode)) {
>+			/* currently, using a primary only makes sense
>+			 * in active backup, TLB or ALB modes
>+			 */
>+			pr_warn("Warning: %s primary device specified but has no effect in %s mode\n",
>+				primary, bond_mode_name(bond_mode));
>+			primary = NULL;
>+		}
> 	}
>
> 	if (primary && primary_reselect) {
>-- 
>1.8.0
>
>