From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Hemminger , "David S. Miller" Subject: [PATCH 4.16 36/55] hv_netvsc: set master device Date: Fri, 18 May 2018 10:15:32 +0200 Message-Id: <20180518081459.171692814@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20180518081457.428920292@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20180518081457.428920292@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 4.16-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Stephen Hemminger [ Upstream commit 97f3efb64323beb0690576e9d74e94998ad6e82a ] The hyper-v transparent bonding should have used master_dev_link. The netvsc device should look like a master bond device not like the upper side of a tunnel. This makes the semantics the same so that userspace applications looking at network devices see the correct master relationshipship. Fixes: 0c195567a8f6 ("netvsc: transparent VF management") Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c +++ b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c @@ -1840,7 +1840,8 @@ static int netvsc_vf_join(struct net_dev goto rx_handler_failed; } - ret = netdev_upper_dev_link(vf_netdev, ndev, NULL); + ret = netdev_master_upper_dev_link(vf_netdev, ndev, + NULL, NULL, NULL); if (ret != 0) { netdev_err(vf_netdev, "can not set master device %s (err = %d)\n",