Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] bonding: fix link recovery in mode 2 when updelay is nonzero

[Jonathan Toppins]

On 11/22/22 09:45, Paolo Abeni wrote:
> On Tue, 2022-11-22 at 08:36 -0500, Jonathan Toppins wrote:
> > On 11/22/22 05:59, Paolo Abeni wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > On Fri, 2022-11-18 at 15:30 -0500, Jonathan Toppins wrote:
> > > > Before this change when a bond in mode 2 lost link, all of its slaves
> > > > lost link, the bonding device would never recover even after the
> > > > expiration of updelay. This change removes the updelay when the bond
> > > > currently has no usable links. Conforming to bonding.txt section 13.1
> > > > paragraph 4.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Jonathan Toppins <jtoppins@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Why are you targeting net-next? This looks like something suitable to
> > > the -net tree to me. If, so could you please include a Fixes tag?
> > >
> > > Note that we can add new self-tests even via the -net tree.
> >
> > I could not find a reasonable fixes tag for this, hence why I targeted
> > the net-next tree.
>
> When in doubt I think it's preferrable to point out a commit surely
> affected by the issue - even if that is possibly not the one
> introducing the issue - than no Fixes as all. The lack of tag will make
> more difficult the work for stable teams.
>
> In this specific case I think that:
>
> Fixes: 41f891004063 ("bonding: ignore updelay param when there is no active slave")
>
> should be ok, WDYT? if you agree would you mind repost for -net?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paolo

Yes that looks like a good one. I will repost to -net a v2 that includes 
changes to reduce the number of icmp echos sent before failing the test.

Thanks,
-Jon