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* [PATCH] bonding: disallow enslaving a bond to itself
@ 2014-02-26 17:20 Jiri Bohac
  2014-02-27  1:30 ` Ding Tianhong
  2014-02-27  3:37 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Jiri Bohac @ 2014-02-26 17:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jay Vosburgh; +Cc: netdev

Enslaving a bond to itself leads to an endless loop and hangs the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@suse.cz>

diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
index 1c6104d..8f028ac 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
@@ -1193,6 +1193,11 @@ int bond_enslave(struct net_device *bond_dev, struct net_device *slave_dev)
 		return -EBUSY;
 	}
 
+	if (bond_dev == slave_dev) {
+		pr_err("%s: cannot enslave bond to itself.\n", bond_dev->name);
+		return -EPERM;
+	}
+
 	/* vlan challenged mutual exclusion */
 	/* no need to lock since we're protected by rtnl_lock */
 	if (slave_dev->features & NETIF_F_VLAN_CHALLENGED) {
-- 
Jiri Bohac <jbohac@suse.cz>
SUSE Labs, SUSE CZ

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