From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
To: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@gmail.com,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Tonghao Zhang <tonghao@bamaicloud.com>,
Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>,
Jay Vosburgh <jv@jvosburgh.net>
Subject: [PATCH net] bonding: avoid ARP flood on RTNL contention in active-backup mode
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2026 09:09:37 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260831090937.3342052-1-edumazet@google.com> (raw)
Commit f1986b3a9f2e ("net: bonding: skip the 2nd trylock when first one
fail") changed bond_activebackup_arp_mon() to reschedule arp_work in
1 tick if the second rtnl_trylock() fails (for sending peer/slave
notifications).
However, by the time bond_activebackup_arp_mon() reaches this second lock
check, bond_ab_arp_probe() has already been executed and sent an ARP probe.
If RTNL remains contended, rescheduling every 1 tick causes
bond_activebackup_arp_mon() to re-execute bond_ab_arp_probe() every jiffy,
flooding the network with ARP probes at HZ frequency (e.g. 1000 pkts/sec)
instead of respecting the configured arp_interval.
If rtnl_trylock() fails at the second check, do not change delta_in_ticks
to 1 so that the next ARP monitor execution is scheduled according to the
configured arp_interval, matching the behavior in
bond_loadbalance_arp_mon().
Fixes: f1986b3a9f2e ("net: bonding: skip the 2nd trylock when first one fail")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
---
Cc: Tonghao Zhang <tonghao@bamaicloud.com>
Cc: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jv@jvosburgh.net>
---
drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 4 +---
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
index ef9eb0c53c66..c23cf18a996a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
@@ -3871,10 +3871,8 @@ static void bond_activebackup_arp_mon(struct bonding *bond)
rcu_read_unlock();
if (READ_ONCE(bond->send_peer_notif) || should_notify_rtnl) {
- if (!rtnl_trylock()) {
- delta_in_ticks = 1;
+ if (!rtnl_trylock())
goto re_arm;
- }
if (bond->send_peer_notif)
bond_peer_notify_may_events(bond, true);
--
2.55.0.897.gb25b4bd76c-goog
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2026-08-31 9:09 Eric Dumazet [this message]
2026-09-01 10:06 ` [PATCH net] bonding: avoid ARP flood on RTNL contention in active-backup mode Hangbin Liu
2026-09-01 11:32 ` Paolo Abeni
2026-09-01 23:44 ` Jay Vosburgh
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