Patch "net: bonding: Fix transmit load balancing in balance-alb mode" has been added to the 4.12-stable tree

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

net: bonding: Fix transmit load balancing in balance-alb mode

to the 4.12-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:
net-bonding-fix-transmit-load-balancing-in-balance-alb-mode.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.12 subdirectory.

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

From: Kosuke Tatsukawa <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 05:20:40 +0000
Subject: net: bonding: Fix transmit load balancing in balance-alb mode

From: Kosuke Tatsukawa <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit cbf5ecb305601d063dc94a57680dfbc3f96c188d ]

balance-alb mode used to have transmit dynamic load balancing feature enabled by default. However, transmit dynamic load balancing no longer works in balance-alb after commit 8b426dc54cf4 ("bonding: remove hardcoded value").

Both balance-tlb and balance-alb use the function bond_do_alb_xmit() to send packets. This function uses the parameter tlb_dynamic_lb. tlb_dynamic_lb used to have the default value of 1 for balance-alb, but now the value is set to 0 except in balance-tlb.

Re-enable transmit dyanmic load balancing by initializing tlb_dynamic_lb for balance-alb similar to balance-tlb.

---
 drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -4598,7 +4598,7 @@ static int bond_check_params(struct bond
 	}
 	ad_user_port_key = valptr->value;
 
-	if (bond_mode == BOND_MODE_TLB) {
+	if ((bond_mode == BOND_MODE_TLB) || (bond_mode == BOND_MODE_ALB)) {
 		bond_opt_initstr(&newval, "default");
 		valptr = bond_opt_parse(bond_opt_get(BOND_OPT_TLB_DYNAMIC_LB),
 					&newval);

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

queue-4.12/net-bonding-fix-transmit-load-balancing-in-balance-alb-mode.patch