On 08/12/2020 14:07:48+0200, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> Commit 7afb3e575e5a ("net: mscc: ocelot: don't handle netdev events for
> other netdevs") was too aggressive, and it made ocelot_netdevice_event
> react only to network interface events emitted for the ocelot switch
> ports.
>
> In fact, only the PRECHANGEUPPER should have had that check.
>
> When we ignore all events that are not for us, we miss the fact that the
> upper of the LAG changes, and the bonding interface gets enslaved to a
> bridge. This is an operation we could offload under certain conditions.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.olt...@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.bell...@bootlin.com>
> ---
> drivers/net/ethernet/mscc/ocelot_net.c | 4 +---
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mscc/ocelot_net.c
> b/drivers/net/ethernet/mscc/ocelot_net.c
> index 93ecd5274156..6fb2a813e694 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mscc/ocelot_net.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mscc/ocelot_net.c
> @@ -1047,10 +1047,8 @@ static int ocelot_netdevice_event(struct
> notifier_block *unused,
> struct net_device *dev = netdev_notifier_info_to_dev(ptr);
> int ret = 0;
>
> - if (!ocelot_netdevice_dev_check(dev))
> - return 0;
> -
> if (event == NETDEV_PRECHANGEUPPER &&
> + ocelot_netdevice_dev_check(dev) &&
> netif_is_lag_master(info->upper_dev)) {
> struct netdev_lag_upper_info *lag_upper_info = info->upper_info;
> struct netlink_ext_ack *extack;
> --
> 2.25.1
>
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Alexandre Belloni, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com
