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* [PATCH net] bonding: fix missing down path on speed/duplex failure after FAIL->UP
@ 2026-10-22 10:38 Timur Stukan
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From: Timur Stukan @ 2026-10-22 10:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: netdev
  Cc: Hangbin Liu, Fernando Fernandez Mancera, Timur Stukan,
	Jay Vosburgh, Andrew Lunn, David S. Miller, Eric Dumazet,
	Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Simon Horman, linux-kernel

In bond_miimon_commit(), when a slave is proposed as BOND_LINK_UP but
bond_update_speed_duplex() fails in bonding mode that needs speed/duplex
(802.3ad, tlb, alb), the slave is set to BOND_LINK_DOWN directly. This
bypasses bond_set_slave_link_state(), bond_miimon_link_change() and
failover.

This is fine for slave that coming from BOND_LINK_BACK, which was never
brought up and is not in use. But since commit 1899bb325149 ("bonding:
fix state transition issue in link monitoring") the commit phase also
handles BOND_LINK_FAIL -> BOND_LINK_UP which means a slave that is still
in use and may be curr_active_slave.

If the link recovers within downdelay and goes down again before the
commit phase reads speed/duplex, the slave is silently marked down while
remaining the active slave in worst cases. In alb/tlb the bond MAC stays
on the dead port, no failover happens and TLB/RLB state is not cleaned,
so the bond stops passing traffic until that link comes back even though
other slaves are up. A non-active slave is affected too, in alb, RLB
clients assigned to it are not reassigned and become unreachable.

Reproduced in tlb and alb mode with miimon=100 and downdelay=10000 by
flapping a slave within downdelay and dropping it again before commit
(a longer delay was added between inspect and commit to make window
wider and easier to test):
  bond0: (slave enp0s3): link status down for interface, disabling it in 10000 ms
  bond0: (slave enp0s3): link status up again after 3400 ms
  bond0: (slave enp0s3): failed to get link speed/duplex

procfs then shows the active slave with "MII Status: down" and "Link
Failure Count: 0", and all traffic is lost.

Fix this by recording the link state before the miimon commit and when
the speed/duplex update fails for a slave coming from BOND_LINK_FAIL,
taking it through the regular down path, including failover. The
BOND_LINK_BACK case keeps the current behaviour. The down path is moved
into bond_miimon_slave_down() so both callers share it.

After the fix:
  bond0: (slave enp0s3): failed to get link speed/duplex
  bond0: (slave enp0s3): link status definitely down, disabling slave
  bond0: (slave enp0s4): making interface the new active one

Fixes: 1899bb325149 ("bonding: fix state transition issue in link monitoring")
Signed-off-by: Timur Stukan <timur.stukan.linux@gmail.com>
---

Notes:
    sizeof(struct slave) grows from 608 to 616 bytes due to padding.
    I kept link_prev_state next to link/link_new_state for readability;
    it can be moved into the hole after 'delay' if preferred.

 drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 include/net/bonding.h           |  1 +
 2 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
index 09aa45d71fab..602ad697a9c2 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
@@ -2779,6 +2779,27 @@ static void bond_miimon_link_change(struct bonding *bond,
 	}
 }
 
+static bool bond_miimon_slave_down(struct bonding *bond,
+				   struct slave *slave)
+{
+	if (slave->link_failure_count < UINT_MAX)
+		slave->link_failure_count++;
+
+	bond_set_slave_link_state(slave, BOND_LINK_DOWN,
+				  BOND_SLAVE_NOTIFY_NOW);
+
+	if (BOND_MODE(bond) == BOND_MODE_ACTIVEBACKUP ||
+	    BOND_MODE(bond) == BOND_MODE_8023AD)
+		bond_set_slave_inactive_flags(slave,
+					      BOND_SLAVE_NOTIFY_NOW);
+
+	slave_info(bond->dev, slave->dev, "link status definitely down, disabling slave\n");
+
+	bond_miimon_link_change(bond, slave, BOND_LINK_DOWN);
+
+	return slave == rcu_access_pointer(bond->curr_active_slave);
+}
+
 static void bond_miimon_commit(struct bonding *bond)
 {
 	struct slave *slave, *primary, *active;
@@ -2807,10 +2828,21 @@ static void bond_miimon_commit(struct bonding *bond)
 			err = bond_update_speed_duplex(slave);
 			netdev_unlock_ops(slave->dev);
 			if (err && bond_needs_speed_duplex(bond)) {
-				slave->link = BOND_LINK_DOWN;
 				if (net_ratelimit())
 					slave_warn(bond->dev, slave->dev,
 						   "failed to get link speed/duplex\n");
+				/* Coming from FAIL, the slave is still in
+				 * use and may be curr_active_slave, so take
+				 * it through the full down path. Coming from
+				 * DOWN/BACK, it was never brought up, so just
+				 * revert it to DOWN.
+				 */
+				if (slave->link_prev_state == BOND_LINK_FAIL) {
+					if (bond_miimon_slave_down(bond, slave))
+						do_failover = true;
+					continue;
+				}
+				slave->link = BOND_LINK_DOWN;
 				continue;
 			}
 			bond_set_slave_link_state(slave, BOND_LINK_UP,
@@ -2839,24 +2871,8 @@ static void bond_miimon_commit(struct bonding *bond)
 			continue;
 
 		case BOND_LINK_DOWN:
-			if (slave->link_failure_count < UINT_MAX)
-				slave->link_failure_count++;
-
-			bond_set_slave_link_state(slave, BOND_LINK_DOWN,
-						  BOND_SLAVE_NOTIFY_NOW);
-
-			if (BOND_MODE(bond) == BOND_MODE_ACTIVEBACKUP ||
-			    BOND_MODE(bond) == BOND_MODE_8023AD)
-				bond_set_slave_inactive_flags(slave,
-							      BOND_SLAVE_NOTIFY_NOW);
-
-			slave_info(bond->dev, slave->dev, "link status definitely down, disabling slave\n");
-
-			bond_miimon_link_change(bond, slave, BOND_LINK_DOWN);
-
-			if (slave == rcu_access_pointer(bond->curr_active_slave))
+			if (bond_miimon_slave_down(bond, slave))
 				do_failover = true;
-
 			continue;
 
 		case BOND_LINK_FAIL:
@@ -2919,6 +2935,7 @@ static void bond_mii_monitor(struct work_struct *work)
 
 		if (commit) {
 			bond_for_each_slave(bond, slave, iter) {
+				slave->link_prev_state = slave->link;
 				bond_commit_link_state(slave,
 						       BOND_SLAVE_NOTIFY_LATER);
 			}
diff --git a/include/net/bonding.h b/include/net/bonding.h
index 598d56b1bc97..b2b102946fe1 100644
--- a/include/net/bonding.h
+++ b/include/net/bonding.h
@@ -165,6 +165,7 @@ struct slave {
 	unsigned long target_last_arp_rx[BOND_MAX_ARP_TARGETS];
 	s8     link;		/* one of BOND_LINK_XXXX */
 	s8     link_new_state;	/* one of BOND_LINK_XXXX */
+	s8     link_prev_state; /* one of BOND_LINK_XXXX */
 	u8     backup:1,   /* indicates backup slave. Value corresponds with
 			      BOND_STATE_ACTIVE and BOND_STATE_BACKUP */
 	       inactive:1, /* indicates inactive slave */
-- 
2.43.0


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