[3.8.y.z extended stable] Patch "bonding: don't permit to use ARP monitoring in 802.3ad mode" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    bonding: don't permit to use ARP monitoring in 802.3ad mode

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.15.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 2175c79a02e7d079c8e83298dceb83046000f4ce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico at redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 15:37:40 +0100
Subject: bonding: don't permit to use ARP monitoring in 802.3ad mode

[ Upstream commit ec9f1d15db8185f63a2c3143dc1e90ba18541b08 ]

Currently the ARP monitoring is not supported with 802.3ad, and it's
prohibited to use it via the module params.

However we still can set it afterwards via sysfs, cause we only check for
*LB modes there.

To fix this - add a check for 802.3ad mode in bonding_store_arp_interval.

CC: Jay Vosburgh <fubar at us.ibm.com>
CC: Andy Gospodarek <andy at greyhouse.net>
Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c
index ea7a388..da7b379 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c
@@ -533,8 +533,9 @@ static ssize_t bonding_store_arp_interval(struct device *d,
 		goto out;
 	}
 	if (bond->params.mode == BOND_MODE_ALB ||
-	    bond->params.mode == BOND_MODE_TLB) {
-		pr_info("%s: ARP monitoring cannot be used with ALB/TLB. Only MII monitoring is supported on %s.\n",
+	    bond->params.mode == BOND_MODE_TLB ||
+	    bond->params.mode == BOND_MODE_8023AD) {
+		pr_info("%s: ARP monitoring cannot be used with ALB/TLB/802.3ad. Only MII monitoring is supported on %s.\n",
 			bond->dev->name, bond->dev->name);
 		ret = -EINVAL;
 		goto out;
--
1.8.3.2