From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:44759 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750745AbcHNStU (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Aug 2016 14:49:20 -0400 Subject: Patch "bonding: set carrier off for devices created through netlink" has been added to the 3.14-stable tree To: bgalvani@redhat.com, davem@davemloft.net, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: , From: Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2016 20:49:30 +0200 Message-ID: <147120057065109@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled bonding: set carrier off for devices created through netlink to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: bonding-set-carrier-off-for-devices-created-through-netlink.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let know about it. >>From foo@baz Sun Aug 14 20:39:28 CEST 2016 From: Beniamino Galvani Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 18:25:08 +0200 Subject: bonding: set carrier off for devices created through netlink Status: RO Content-Length: 1378 Lines: 44 From: Beniamino Galvani [ Upstream commit 005db31d5f5f7c31cfdc43505d77eb3ca5cf8ec6 ] Commit e826eafa65c6 ("bonding: Call netif_carrier_off after register_netdevice") moved netif_carrier_off() from bond_init() to bond_create(), but the latter is called only for initial default devices and ones created through sysfs: $ modprobe bonding $ echo +bond1 > /sys/class/net/bonding_masters $ ip link add bond2 type bond $ grep "MII Status" /proc/net/bonding/* /proc/net/bonding/bond0:MII Status: down /proc/net/bonding/bond1:MII Status: down /proc/net/bonding/bond2:MII Status: up Ensure that carrier is initially off also for devices created through netlink. Signed-off-by: Beniamino Galvani Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/net/bonding/bond_netlink.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_netlink.c +++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_netlink.c @@ -360,7 +360,11 @@ static int bond_newlink(struct net *src_ if (err < 0) return err; - return register_netdevice(bond_dev); + err = register_netdevice(bond_dev); + + netif_carrier_off(bond_dev); + + return err; } static size_t bond_get_size(const struct net_device *bond_dev) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bgalvani@redhat.com are queue-3.14/bonding-set-carrier-off-for-devices-created-through-netlink.patch