linux/drivers/net
Jarod Wilson faeeb317a5 bonding: attempt to better support longer hw addresses
People are using bonding over Infiniband IPoIB connections, and who knows
what else. Infiniband has a hardware address length of 20 octets
(INFINIBAND_ALEN), and the network core defines a MAX_ADDR_LEN of 32.
Various places in the bonding code are currently hard-wired to 6 octets
(ETH_ALEN), such as the 3ad code, which I've left untouched here. Besides,
only alb is currently possible on Infiniband links right now anyway, due
to commit 1533e77315, so the alb code is where most of the changes are.

One major component of this change is the addition of a bond_hw_addr_copy
function that takes a length argument, instead of using ether_addr_copy
everywhere that hardware addresses need to be copied about. The other
major component of this change is converting the bonding code from using
struct sockaddr for address storage to struct sockaddr_storage, as the
former has an address storage space of only 14, while the latter is 128
minus a few, which is necessary to support bonding over device with up to
MAX_ADDR_LEN octet hardware addresses. Additionally, this probably fixes
up some memory corruption issues with the current code, where it's
possible to write an infiniband hardware address into a sockaddr declared
on the stack.

Lightly tested on a dual mlx4 IPoIB setup, which properly shows a 20-octet
hardware address now:

$ cat /proc/net/bonding/bond0
Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v3.7.1 (April 27, 2011)

Bonding Mode: fault-tolerance (active-backup) (fail_over_mac active)
Primary Slave: mlx4_ib0 (primary_reselect always)
Currently Active Slave: mlx4_ib0
MII Status: up
MII Polling Interval (ms): 100
Up Delay (ms): 100
Down Delay (ms): 100

Slave Interface: mlx4_ib0
MII Status: up
Speed: Unknown
Duplex: Unknown
Link Failure Count: 0
Permanent HW addr:
80:00:02:08:fe:80:00:00:00:00:00:00:e4:1d:2d:03:00:1d:67:01
Slave queue ID: 0

Slave Interface: mlx4_ib1
MII Status: up
Speed: Unknown
Duplex: Unknown
Link Failure Count: 0
Permanent HW addr:
80:00:02:09:fe:80:00:00:00:00:00:01:e4:1d:2d:03:00:1d:67:02
Slave queue ID: 0

Also tested with a standard 1Gbps NIC bonding setup (with a mix of
e1000 and e1000e cards), running LNST's bonding tests.

CC: Jay Vosburgh <j.vosburgh@gmail.com>
CC: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@gmail.com>
CC: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
CC: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-04-05 18:44:54 -07:00
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appletalk
arcnet
bonding bonding: attempt to better support longer hw addresses 2017-04-05 18:44:54 -07:00
caif
can can: hi311x: Add Holt HI-311x CAN driver 2017-04-04 17:35:59 +02:00
cris net: cris: eth_v10: use new api ethtool_{get|set}_link_ksettings 2017-03-27 15:53:19 -07:00
dsa net: dsa: Mock-up driver 2017-04-01 12:39:32 -07:00
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phy phy/ethtool: Add missing SPEED_<foo> strings 2017-04-05 06:36:06 -07:00
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wan ucc/hdlc: fix two little issue 2017-03-13 21:53:48 -07:00
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Kconfig
LICENSE.SRC
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macvlan.c
macvtap.c
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mdio.c
mii.c
netconsole.c
nlmon.c
ntb_netdev.c net: net_netdev: use new api ethtool_{get|set}_link_ksettings 2017-03-13 15:25:53 -07:00
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sb1000.c
Space.c
sungem_phy.c
tap.c
tun.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-03-23 16:41:27 -07:00
veth.c net: veth: use new api ethtool_{get|set}_link_ksettings 2017-03-29 14:07:22 -07:00
virtio_net.c net: virtio_net: use new api ethtool_{get|set}_link_ksettings 2017-03-22 19:26:52 -07:00
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