Re: [PATCH net] bonding: use permanent address for MAC swapping if device address is same

[Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Apr 03, 2025 at 04:02:33PM +0200, Paolo Abeni wrote:
> On 3/19/25 9:09 AM, Hangbin Liu wrote:
> > Similar with a951bc1e6ba5 ("bonding: correct the MAC address for "follow"
> > fail_over_mac policy"). The fail_over_mac follow mode requires the formerly
> > active slave to swap MAC addresses with the newly active slave during
> > failover. However, the slave's MAC address can be same under certain
> > conditions:
> > 
> > 1) ip link set eth0 master bond0
> >    bond0 adopts eth0's MAC address (MAC0).
> > 
> > 1) ip link set eth1 master bond0
> >    eth1 is added as a backup with its own MAC (MAC1).
> > 
> > 3) ip link set eth0 nomaster
> >    eth0 is released and restores its MAC (MAC0).
> >    eth1 becomes the active slave, and bond0 assigns MAC0 to eth1.
> 
> It was not immediately clear to me that the mac-dance in the code below
> happens only at failover time.
> 
> I second Jakub's doubt, I think it would be better to change eth0 mac
> address here (possibly to permanent eth1 mac, to preserve some consistency?)

I have talked about one of the duplicate mac issue with Jay before [1]. We
decided to print a warning for that. I will discuss with Jay for this one
in one new patch thread.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/Z49yXz1dx2ZzqhC1@fedora

Thanks
Hangbin
> 
> Doing that in ndo_del_slave() should allow bonding to change the mac
> while still owning the old slave and avoid races with user-space.
> 
> WDYT?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Paolo
>