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From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
To: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
Cc: network dev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	davem@davemloft.net, kuba@kernel.org,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>, LiLiang <liali@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] team: prevent ipv6 link local address on port devices
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2022 09:05:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y4731q0/oqwhHZod@nanopsycho> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <32ee765d2240163f1cbd5d99db6233f276857ccb.1670262365.git.lucien.xin@gmail.com>

Mon, Dec 05, 2022 at 06:46:05PM CET, lucien.xin@gmail.com wrote:
>The similar fix from commit c2edacf80e15 ("bonding / ipv6: no addrconf
>for slaves separately from master") is also needed in Team. Otherwise,
>DAD and RS packets to be sent from the slaves in turn can confuse the
>switches and cause them to incorrectly update their forwarding tables
>as Liang noticed in the test with activebackup mode.
>
>Note that the patch also sets IFF_MASTER flag for Team dev accordingly
>while IFF_SLAVE flag is set for port devs. Although IFF_MASTER flag is
>not really used in Team, it's good to show in 'ip link':
>
>  eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,SLAVE,UP,LOWER_UP>
>  team0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,MASTER,UP,LOWER_UP>
>
>Fixes: 3d249d4ca7d0 ("net: introduce ethernet teaming device")
>Reported-by: LiLiang <liali@redhat.com>
>Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>

Nack. Please don't do this. IFF_MASTER and IFF_SLAVE are historical
flags used by bonding and eql. Should not be used for other devices.

addrconf_addr_gen() should not check IFF_SLAVE. It should use:
netif_is_lag_port() and netif_is_failover_slave() helpers.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-12-06  8:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-05 17:46 [PATCH net] team: prevent ipv6 link local address on port devices Xin Long
2022-12-05 18:39 ` Stephen Hemminger
2022-12-06  8:05 ` Jiri Pirko [this message]
2022-12-06 13:32   ` Xin Long
2022-12-06 21:52     ` Xin Long
2022-12-07 13:31       ` Jiri Pirko
2022-12-07 23:35         ` Xin Long
2022-12-08 11:19           ` Jiri Pirko
2022-12-08 17:07             ` Xin Long
2022-12-09 11:11               ` Jiri Pirko

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