bonding: improve link-status update in mii-monitoring
The primary issue is that mii-inspect phase updates link-state and expects changes to be committed during the mii-commit phase. After the inspect phase if it fails to acquire rtnl-mutex, the commit phase (bond_mii_commit) doesn't get to run. This partially updated state stays and makes the internal-state inconsistent. e.g. setup bond0 => slaves: eth1, eth2 eth1 goes DOWN -> UP mii_monitor() mii-inspect() bond_set_slave_link_state(eth1, UP, DontNotify) rtnl_trylock() <- fails! Next mii-monitor round eth1: No change mii_monitor() mii-inspect() eth1->link == current-status (ethtool_ops->get_link) no-change-detected End result: eth1: Link = BOND_LINK_UP Speed = 0xfffff [SpeedUnknown] Duplex = 0xff [DuplexUnknown] This doesn't always happen but for some unlucky machines in a large set of machines it creates problems. The fix for this is to avoid making changes during inspect phase and postpone them until acquiring the rtnl-mutex / invoking commit phase. Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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