s390/qeth: Fix potential loss of L3-IP@ in case of network issues
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Alexandra Winter
maintainerPATCH 1/1 s390/qeth: Fix potential loss of L3-IP@ in case of network issues
Symptom:
In case of a bad cable connection (e.g. dirty optics) a fast sequence of network DOWN-UP-DOWN-UP could happen. UP triggers recovery of the qeth interface. In case of a second DOWN while recovery is still ongoing, it can happen that the IP@ of a Layer3 qeth interface is lost and will not be recovered by the second UP.
Problem:
When registration of IP addresses with Layer 3 qeth devices fails, (e.g. because of bad address format) the respective IP address is deleted from its hash-table in the driver. If registration fails because of a ENETDOWN condition, the address should stay in the hashtable, so a subsequent recovery can restore it.
3caa4af834df ("qeth: keep ip-address after LAN_OFFLINE failure") fixes this for registration failures during normal operation, but not during recovery.
Solution:
Keep L3-IP address in case of ENETDOWN in qeth_l3_recover_ip(). For consistency with qeth_l3_add_ip() we also keep it in case of EADDRINUSE, i.e. for some reason the card already/still has this address registered.
--- drivers/s390/net/qeth_l3_main.c | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
drivers/s390/net/qeth_l3_main.c +6 -3
@@ -255,9 +255,10 @@ static void qeth_l3_clear_ip_htable(struct qeth_card *card, int recover)if (!recover) {hash_del (&addr->hnode);kfree (addr); -continue ; + }else { +/* prepare for recovery */ + addr->disp_flag =QETH_DISP_ADDR_ADD ; } - addr->disp_flag =QETH_DISP_ADDR_ADD ; }mutex_unlock (&card->ip_lock);
@@ -278,9 +279,11 @@ static void qeth_l3_recover_ip(struct qeth_card *card)if (addr->disp_flag ==QETH_DISP_ADDR_ADD ) { rc =qeth_l3_register_addr_entry (card, addr); -if (!rc) { +if (!rc || rc == -EADDRINUSE || rc == -ENETDOWN ) { +/* keep it in the records */ addr->disp_flag =QETH_DISP_ADDR_DO_NOTHING ; }else { +/* bad address */ hash_del (&addr->hnode);kfree (addr); }
Signature · 1 line
2.40.1
This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (main) by Paolo Abeni <[email protected]>:
Hello:
This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (main)
by Paolo Abeni <[email protected]>:
Quoted 8 lines · On Tue, 6 Feb 2024 09:58:49 +0100 you wrote:
Symptom:
In case of a bad cable connection (e.g. dirty optics) a fast sequence of network DOWN-UP-DOWN-UP could happen. UP triggers recovery of the qeth interface. In case of a second DOWN while recovery is still ongoing, it can happen that the IP@ of a Layer3 qeth interface is lost and will not be recovered by the second UP.[...]
Here is the summary with links:
- [net] s390/qeth: Fix potential loss of L3-IP@ in case of network issues
https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/2fe8a236436f
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