In Linux bonding scenario, one packet is copied to several copies and sent
by all slave device of bond0 in mode 3(broadcast mode). The mode 3 xmit
function bond_xmit_broadcast() only ueses the last slave device's tx result
as the final result. In this case, if the last slave device is down, then
it always return NET_XMIT_DROP, even though the other slave devices xmit
success. It may cause the tx statistics error, and cause the application
(e.g. scp) consider the network is unreachable.
For example, use the following command to configure server A.
echo 3 > /sys/class/net/bond0/bonding/mode
ifconfig bond0 up
ifenslave bond0 eth0 eth1
ifconfig bond0 192.168.1.125
ifconfig eth0 up
ifconfig eth1 down
The slave device eth0 and eth1 are connected to server B(192.168.1.107).
Run the ping 192.168.1.107 -c 3 -i 0.2 command, the following information
is displayed.
PING 192.168.1.107 (192.168.1.107) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.1.107: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.077 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.107: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.056 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.107: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.051 ms
192.168.1.107 ping statistics
0 packets transmitted, 3 received
Actually, the slave device eth0 of the bond successfully sends three
ICMP packets, but the result shows that 0 packets are transmitted.
Also if we use scp command to get remote files, the command end with the
following printings.
ssh_exchange_identification: read: Connection timed out
So this patch modifies the bond_xmit_broadcast to return NET_XMIT_SUCCESS
if one slave device in the bond sends packets successfully. If all slave
devices send packets fail, the discarded packets stats is increased. The
skb is released when there is no slave device in the bond or the last slave
device is down.
Fixes: ae46f184bc ("bonding: propagate transmit status")
Signed-off-by: Jie Wang <wangjie125@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Guangbin Huang <huangguangbin2@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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