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    bonding: Don't update slave->link until ready to commit · 797a9364
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    In the loadbalance arp monitoring scheme, when a slave link change is
    detected, the slave->link is immediately updated and slave_state_changed
    is set. Later down the function, the rtnl_lock is acquired and the
    changes are committed, updating the bond link state.
    
    However, the acquisition of the rtnl_lock can fail. The next time the
    monitor runs, since slave->link is already updated, it determines that
    link is unchanged. This results in the bond link state permanently out
    of sync with the slave link.
    
    This patch modifies bond_loadbalance_arp_mon() to handle link changes
    identical to bond_ab_arp_{inspect/commit}(). The new link state is
    maintained in slave->new_link until we're ready to commit at which point
    it's copied into slave->link.
    
    NOTE: miimon_{inspect/commit}() has a more complex state machine
    requiring the use of the bond_{propose,commit}_link_state() functions
    which maintains the intermediate state in slave->link_new_state. The arp
    monitors don't require that.
    
    Testing: This bug is very easy to reproduce with the following steps.
    1. In a loop, toggle a slave link of a bond slave interface.
    2. In a separate loop, do ifconfig up/down of an unrelated interface to
    create contention for rtnl_lock.
    Within a few iterations, the bond link goes out of sync with the slave
    link.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarNithin Nayak Sujir <nsujir@tintri.com>
    Cc: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
    Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarMahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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