Patch "bonding: ratelimit failed speed/duplex update warning" has been added to the 4.12-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    bonding: ratelimit failed speed/duplex update warning

to the 4.12-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-ratelimit-failed-speed-duplex-update-warning.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.12 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Thu Aug 24 17:43:45 PDT 2017
From: Andreas Born <futur.andy@googlemail.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2017 00:36:55 +0200
Subject: bonding: ratelimit failed speed/duplex update warning

From: Andreas Born <futur.andy@googlemail.com>


[ Upstream commit 11e9d7829dd08dbafb24517fe922f11c3a8a9dc2 ]

bond_miimon_commit() handles the UP transition for each slave of a bond
in the case of MII. It is triggered 10 times per second for the default
MII Polling interval of 100ms. For device drivers that do not implement
__ethtool_get_link_ksettings() the call to bond_update_speed_duplex()
fails persistently while the MII status could remain UP. That is, in
this and other cases where the speed/duplex update keeps failing over a
longer period of time while the MII state is UP, a warning is printed
every MII polling interval.

To address these excessive warnings net_ratelimit() should be used.
Printing a warning once would not be sufficient since the call to
bond_update_speed_duplex() could recover to succeed and fail again
later. In that case there would be no new indication what went wrong.

Fixes: b5bf0f5b16b9c (bonding: correctly update link status during mii-commit phase)
Signed-off-by: Andreas Born <futur.andy@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c |    7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
@@ -2141,9 +2141,10 @@ static void bond_miimon_commit(struct bo
 			if (bond_update_speed_duplex(slave) &&
 			    bond_needs_speed_duplex(bond)) {
 				slave->link = BOND_LINK_DOWN;
-				netdev_warn(bond->dev,
-					    "failed to get link speed/duplex for %s\n",
-					    slave->dev->name);
+				if (net_ratelimit())
+					netdev_warn(bond->dev,
+						    "failed to get link speed/duplex for %s\n",
+						    slave->dev->name);
 				continue;
 			}
 			bond_set_slave_link_state(slave, BOND_LINK_UP,


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from futur.andy@googlemail.com are

queue-4.12/bonding-ratelimit-failed-speed-duplex-update-warning.patch
queue-4.12/bonding-require-speed-duplex-only-for-802.3ad-alb-and-tlb.patch