FAILED: patch "[PATCH] s390/qeth: Fix potential loss of L3-IP@ in case of network" failed to apply to 5.4-stable tree

The patch below does not apply to the 5.4-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-5.4.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 2fe8a236436fe40d8d26a1af8d150fc80f04ee1a
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<[email protected]>' --in-reply-to '2024021906-aspirin-starless-d7df@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.4.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:

2fe8a236436f ("s390/qeth: Fix potential loss of L3-IP@ in case of network issues")

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 2fe8a236436fe40d8d26a1af8d150fc80f04ee1a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexandra Winter <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2024 09:58:49 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] 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.

index b92a32b4b114..04c64ce0a1ca 100644
@@ -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);
 			}