bonding: report duplicate MAC address in all situations
authorHangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
Tue, 25 Feb 2025 03:39:14 +0000 (03:39 +0000)
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Thu, 27 Feb 2025 03:27:17 +0000 (19:27 -0800)
commit28d68d396a1cd21591e8c6d74afbde33a7ea107e
tree5975a27e71830936ea858152550d70d4b79deb4d
parente6116fc605574bb58c2016938ff24a7fbafe6e2a
bonding: report duplicate MAC address in all situations

Normally, a bond uses the MAC address of the first added slave as the bond’s
MAC address. And the bond will set active slave’s MAC address to bond’s
address if fail_over_mac is set to none (0) or follow (2).

When the first slave is removed, the bond will still use the removed slave’s
MAC address, which can lead to a duplicate MAC address and potentially cause
issues with the switch. To avoid confusion, let's warn the user in all
situations, including when fail_over_mac is set to 2 or not in active-backup
mode.

Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250225033914.18617-1-liuhangbin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c