Patch "bonding: fix panic on non-ARPHRD_ETHER enslave failure" has been added to the 4.3-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

bonding: fix panic on non-ARPHRD_ETHER enslave failure

to the 4.3-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
bonding-fix-panic-on-non-arphrd_ether-enslave-failure.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.3 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Jay Vosburgh <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 17:23:23 -0800
Subject: bonding: fix panic on non-ARPHRD_ETHER enslave failure

From: Jay Vosburgh <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 40baec225765c54eefa870530dd613bad9829bb7 ]

Since commit 7d5cd2ce529b, when bond_enslave fails on devices that are not ARPHRD_ETHER, if needed, it resets the bonding device back to ARPHRD_ETHER by calling ether_setup.

	Unfortunately, ether_setup clobbers dev->flags, clearing IFF_UP

if the bond device is up, leaving it in a quasi-down state without having actually gone through dev_close. For bonding, if any periodic work queue items are active (miimon, arp_interval, etc), those will remain running, as they are stopped by bond_close. At this point, if the bonding module is unloaded or the bond is deleted, the system will panic when the work function is called.

This panic is resolved by calling dev_close on the bond itself
prior to calling ether_setup.

---
 drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

@@ -1749,6 +1749,7 @@ err_undo_flags:
 					    slave_dev->dev_addr))
 			eth_hw_addr_random(bond_dev);
 		if (bond_dev->type != ARPHRD_ETHER) {
+			dev_close(bond_dev);
 			ether_setup(bond_dev);
 			bond_dev->flags |= IFF_MASTER;
 			bond_dev->priv_flags &= ~IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.3/bonding-fix-panic-on-non-arphrd_ether-enslave-failure.patch