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<title>linux-toradex.git/drivers/net/bonding, branch v3.2.9</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>bonding: fix enslaving in alb mode when link down</title>
<updated>2012-02-03T17:22:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Bohac</name>
<email>jbohac@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2012-01-18T12:24:54+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit b924551bed09f61b64f21bffe241afc5526b091a ]

bond_alb_init_slave() is called from bond_enslave() and sets the slave's MAC
address. This is done differently for TLB and ALB modes.
bond-&gt;alb_info.rlb_enabled is used to discriminate between the two modes but
this flag may be uninitialized if the slave is being enslaved prior to calling
bond_open() -&gt; bond_alb_initialize() on the master.

It turns out all the callers of alb_set_slave_mac_addr() pass
bond-&gt;alb_info.rlb_enabled as the hw parameter.

This patch cleans up the unnecessary parameter of alb_set_slave_mac_addr() and
makes the function decide based on the bonding mode instead, which fixes the
above problem.

Reported-by: Narendra K &lt;Narendra_K@Dell.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Bohac &lt;jbohac@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh &lt;fubar@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit b924551bed09f61b64f21bffe241afc5526b091a ]

bond_alb_init_slave() is called from bond_enslave() and sets the slave's MAC
address. This is done differently for TLB and ALB modes.
bond-&gt;alb_info.rlb_enabled is used to discriminate between the two modes but
this flag may be uninitialized if the slave is being enslaved prior to calling
bond_open() -&gt; bond_alb_initialize() on the master.

It turns out all the callers of alb_set_slave_mac_addr() pass
bond-&gt;alb_info.rlb_enabled as the hw parameter.

This patch cleans up the unnecessary parameter of alb_set_slave_mac_addr() and
makes the function decide based on the bonding mode instead, which fixes the
above problem.

Reported-by: Narendra K &lt;Narendra_K@Dell.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Bohac &lt;jbohac@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh &lt;fubar@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bonding: fix error handling if slave is busy (v2)</title>
<updated>2012-01-12T19:29:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>stephen hemminger</name>
<email>shemminger@vyatta.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-12-31T13:26:46+00:00</published>
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commit f7d9821a6a9c83450ac35e76d3709e32fd38b76f upstream.

If slave device already has a receive handler registered, then the
error unwind of bonding device enslave function is broken.

The following will leave a pointer to freed memory in the slave
device list, causing a later kernel panic.
# modprobe dummy
# ip li add dummy0-1 link dummy0 type macvlan
# modprobe bonding
# echo +dummy0 &gt;/sys/class/net/bond0/bonding/slaves

The fix is to detach the slave (which removes it from the list)
in the unwind path.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;shemminger@vyatta.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicolas de Pesloüan &lt;nicolas.2p.debian@free.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit f7d9821a6a9c83450ac35e76d3709e32fd38b76f upstream.

If slave device already has a receive handler registered, then the
error unwind of bonding device enslave function is broken.

The following will leave a pointer to freed memory in the slave
device list, causing a later kernel panic.
# modprobe dummy
# ip li add dummy0-1 link dummy0 type macvlan
# modprobe bonding
# echo +dummy0 &gt;/sys/class/net/bond0/bonding/slaves

The fix is to detach the slave (which removes it from the list)
in the unwind path.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;shemminger@vyatta.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicolas de Pesloüan &lt;nicolas.2p.debian@free.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bonding: only use primary address for ARP</title>
<updated>2011-12-01T03:59:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Henrik Saavedra Persson</name>
<email>henrik.e.persson@ericsson.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-23T23:37:15+00:00</published>
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Only use the primary address of the bond device
for master_ip. This will prevent changing the ARP source
address in Active-Backup mode whenever a secondry address
is added to the bond device.

Signed-off-by: Henrik Saavedra Persson &lt;henrik.e.persson@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek &lt;andy@greyhouse.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@drr.davemloft.net&gt;
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Only use the primary address of the bond device
for master_ip. This will prevent changing the ARP source
address in Active-Backup mode whenever a secondry address
is added to the bond device.

Signed-off-by: Henrik Saavedra Persson &lt;henrik.e.persson@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek &lt;andy@greyhouse.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@drr.davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bonding: Don't allow mode change via sysfs with slaves present</title>
<updated>2011-11-18T00:31:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Veaceslav Falico</name>
<email>vfalico@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-15T06:44:42+00:00</published>
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When changing mode via bonding's sysfs, the slaves are not initialized
correctly. Forbid to change modes with slaves present to ensure that every
slave is initialized correctly via bond_enslave().

Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico &lt;vfalico@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek &lt;andy@greyhouse.net&gt;
Acked-by: Nicolas de Pesloüan &lt;nicolas.2p.debian@free.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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When changing mode via bonding's sysfs, the slaves are not initialized
correctly. Forbid to change modes with slaves present to ensure that every
slave is initialized correctly via bond_enslave().

Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico &lt;vfalico@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek &lt;andy@greyhouse.net&gt;
Acked-by: Nicolas de Pesloüan &lt;nicolas.2p.debian@free.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net</title>
<updated>2011-11-07T18:55:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-07T18:55:33+00:00</published>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (47 commits)
  forcedeth: fix a few sparse warnings (variable shadowing)
  forcedeth: Improve stats counters
  forcedeth: remove unneeded stats updates
  forcedeth: Acknowledge only interrupts that are being processed
  forcedeth: fix race when unloading module
  MAINTAINERS/rds: update maintainer
  wanrouter: Remove kernel_lock annotations
  usbnet: fix oops in usbnet_start_xmit
  ixgbe: Fix compile for kernel without CONFIG_PCI_IOV defined
  etherh: Add MAINTAINERS entry for etherh
  bonding: comparing a u8 with -1 is always false
  sky2: fix regression on Yukon Optima
  netlink: clarify attribute length check documentation
  netlink: validate NLA_MSECS length
  i825xx:xscale:8390:freescale: Fix Kconfig dependancies
  macvlan: receive multicast with local address
  tg3: Update version to 3.121
  tg3: Eliminate timer race with reset_task
  tg3: Schedule at most one tg3_reset_task run
  tg3: Obtain PCI function number from device
  ...
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (47 commits)
  forcedeth: fix a few sparse warnings (variable shadowing)
  forcedeth: Improve stats counters
  forcedeth: remove unneeded stats updates
  forcedeth: Acknowledge only interrupts that are being processed
  forcedeth: fix race when unloading module
  MAINTAINERS/rds: update maintainer
  wanrouter: Remove kernel_lock annotations
  usbnet: fix oops in usbnet_start_xmit
  ixgbe: Fix compile for kernel without CONFIG_PCI_IOV defined
  etherh: Add MAINTAINERS entry for etherh
  bonding: comparing a u8 with -1 is always false
  sky2: fix regression on Yukon Optima
  netlink: clarify attribute length check documentation
  netlink: validate NLA_MSECS length
  i825xx:xscale:8390:freescale: Fix Kconfig dependancies
  macvlan: receive multicast with local address
  tg3: Update version to 3.121
  tg3: Eliminate timer race with reset_task
  tg3: Schedule at most one tg3_reset_task run
  tg3: Obtain PCI function number from device
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux</title>
<updated>2011-11-07T03:44:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-07T03:44:47+00:00</published>
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* 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux: (230 commits)
  Revert "tracing: Include module.h in define_trace.h"
  irq: don't put module.h into irq.h for tracking irqgen modules.
  bluetooth: macroize two small inlines to avoid module.h
  ip_vs.h: fix implicit use of module_get/module_put from module.h
  nf_conntrack.h: fix up fallout from implicit moduleparam.h presence
  include: replace linux/module.h with "struct module" wherever possible
  include: convert various register fcns to macros to avoid include chaining
  crypto.h: remove unused crypto_tfm_alg_modname() inline
  uwb.h: fix implicit use of asm/page.h for PAGE_SIZE
  pm_runtime.h: explicitly requires notifier.h
  linux/dmaengine.h: fix implicit use of bitmap.h and asm/page.h
  miscdevice.h: fix up implicit use of lists and types
  stop_machine.h: fix implicit use of smp.h for smp_processor_id
  of: fix implicit use of errno.h in include/linux/of.h
  of_platform.h: delete needless include &lt;linux/module.h&gt;
  acpi: remove module.h include from platform/aclinux.h
  miscdevice.h: delete unnecessary inclusion of module.h
  device_cgroup.h: delete needless include &lt;linux/module.h&gt;
  net: sch_generic remove redundant use of &lt;linux/module.h&gt;
  net: inet_timewait_sock doesnt need &lt;linux/module.h&gt;
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts (other header files, and  removal of the ab3550 mfd driver) in
 - drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dibx000_common.c
 - drivers/media/video/{mt9m111.c,ov6650.c}
 - drivers/mfd/ab3550-core.c
 - include/linux/dmaengine.h
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* 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux: (230 commits)
  Revert "tracing: Include module.h in define_trace.h"
  irq: don't put module.h into irq.h for tracking irqgen modules.
  bluetooth: macroize two small inlines to avoid module.h
  ip_vs.h: fix implicit use of module_get/module_put from module.h
  nf_conntrack.h: fix up fallout from implicit moduleparam.h presence
  include: replace linux/module.h with "struct module" wherever possible
  include: convert various register fcns to macros to avoid include chaining
  crypto.h: remove unused crypto_tfm_alg_modname() inline
  uwb.h: fix implicit use of asm/page.h for PAGE_SIZE
  pm_runtime.h: explicitly requires notifier.h
  linux/dmaengine.h: fix implicit use of bitmap.h and asm/page.h
  miscdevice.h: fix up implicit use of lists and types
  stop_machine.h: fix implicit use of smp.h for smp_processor_id
  of: fix implicit use of errno.h in include/linux/of.h
  of_platform.h: delete needless include &lt;linux/module.h&gt;
  acpi: remove module.h include from platform/aclinux.h
  miscdevice.h: delete unnecessary inclusion of module.h
  device_cgroup.h: delete needless include &lt;linux/module.h&gt;
  net: sch_generic remove redundant use of &lt;linux/module.h&gt;
  net: inet_timewait_sock doesnt need &lt;linux/module.h&gt;
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts (other header files, and  removal of the ab3550 mfd driver) in
 - drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dibx000_common.c
 - drivers/media/video/{mt9m111.c,ov6650.c}
 - drivers/mfd/ab3550-core.c
 - include/linux/dmaengine.h
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bonding: comparing a u8 with -1 is always false</title>
<updated>2011-11-04T22:37:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Carpenter</name>
<email>dan.carpenter@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-04T08:21:38+00:00</published>
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slave-&gt;duplex is a u8 type so the in bond_info_show_slave() when we
check "if (slave-&gt;duplex == -1)", it's always false.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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slave-&gt;duplex is a u8 type so the in bond_info_show_slave() when we
check "if (slave-&gt;duplex == -1)", it's always false.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bonding:update speed/duplex for NETDEV_CHANGE</title>
<updated>2011-11-01T21:52:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Weiping Pan</name>
<email>wpan@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-10-31T17:20:48+00:00</published>
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Zheng Liang(lzheng@redhat.com) found a bug that if we config bonding with
arp monitor, sometimes bonding driver cannot get the speed and duplex from
its slaves, it will assume them to be 100Mb/sec and Full, please see
/proc/net/bonding/bond0.
But there is no such problem when uses miimon.

(Take igb for example)
I find that the reason is that after dev_open() in bond_enslave(),
bond_update_speed_duplex() will call igb_get_settings()
, but in that function,
it runs ethtool_cmd_speed_set(ecmd, -1); ecmd-&gt;duplex = -1;
because igb get an error value of status.
So even dev_open() is called, but the device is not really ready to get its
settings.

Maybe it is safe for us to call igb_get_settings() only after
this message shows up, that is "igb: p4p1 NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex,
Flow Control: RX".

So I prefer to update the speed and duplex for a slave when reseices
NETDEV_CHANGE/NETDEV_UP event.

Changelog
V2:
1 remove the "fake 100/Full" logic in bond_update_speed_duplex(),
  set speed and duplex to -1 when it gets error value of speed and duplex.
2 delete the warning in bond_enslave() if bond_update_speed_duplex() returns
  error.
3 make bond_info_show_slave() handle bad values of speed and duplex.

Signed-off-by: Weiping Pan &lt;wpan@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Zheng Liang(lzheng@redhat.com) found a bug that if we config bonding with
arp monitor, sometimes bonding driver cannot get the speed and duplex from
its slaves, it will assume them to be 100Mb/sec and Full, please see
/proc/net/bonding/bond0.
But there is no such problem when uses miimon.

(Take igb for example)
I find that the reason is that after dev_open() in bond_enslave(),
bond_update_speed_duplex() will call igb_get_settings()
, but in that function,
it runs ethtool_cmd_speed_set(ecmd, -1); ecmd-&gt;duplex = -1;
because igb get an error value of status.
So even dev_open() is called, but the device is not really ready to get its
settings.

Maybe it is safe for us to call igb_get_settings() only after
this message shows up, that is "igb: p4p1 NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex,
Flow Control: RX".

So I prefer to update the speed and duplex for a slave when reseices
NETDEV_CHANGE/NETDEV_UP event.

Changelog
V2:
1 remove the "fake 100/Full" logic in bond_update_speed_duplex(),
  set speed and duplex to -1 when it gets error value of speed and duplex.
2 delete the warning in bond_enslave() if bond_update_speed_duplex() returns
  error.
3 make bond_info_show_slave() handle bad values of speed and duplex.

Signed-off-by: Weiping Pan &lt;wpan@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>drivers/net: Add export.h to files using EXPORT_SYMBOL/THIS_MODULE</title>
<updated>2011-10-31T23:31:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Gortmaker</name>
<email>paul.gortmaker@windriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-27T20:14:23+00:00</published>
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These were getting the macros from an implicit module.h
include via device.h, but we are planning to clean that up.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;

drivers/net: Add export.h to wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/bcmsdh.c

This relatively recently added file uses EXPORT_SYMBOL and hence
needs export.h included so that it is compatible with the module.h
split up work.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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These were getting the macros from an implicit module.h
include via device.h, but we are planning to clean that up.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;

drivers/net: Add export.h to wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/bcmsdh.c

This relatively recently added file uses EXPORT_SYMBOL and hence
needs export.h included so that it is compatible with the module.h
split up work.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bonding: eliminate bond_close race conditions</title>
<updated>2011-10-30T07:13:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jay Vosburgh</name>
<email>fubar@us.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-10-28T15:42:50+00:00</published>
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This patch resolves two sets of race conditions.

	Mitsuo Hayasaka &lt;mitsuo.hayasaka.hu@hitachi.com&gt; reported the
first, as follows:

The bond_close() calls cancel_delayed_work() to cancel delayed works.
It, however, cannot cancel works that were already queued in workqueue.
The bond_open() initializes work-&gt;data, and proccess_one_work() refers
get_work_cwq(work)-&gt;wq-&gt;flags. The get_work_cwq() returns NULL when
work-&gt;data has been initialized. Thus, a panic occurs.

	He included a patch that converted the cancel_delayed_work calls
in bond_close to flush_delayed_work_sync, which eliminated the above
problem.

	His patch is incorporated, at least in principle, into this
patch.  In this patch, we use cancel_delayed_work_sync in place of
flush_delayed_work_sync, and also convert bond_uninit in addition to
bond_close.

	This conversion to _sync, however, opens new races between
bond_close and three periodically executing workqueue functions:
bond_mii_monitor, bond_alb_monitor and bond_activebackup_arp_mon.

	The race occurs because bond_close and bond_uninit are always
called with RTNL held, and these workqueue functions may acquire RTNL to
perform failover-related activities.  If bond_close or bond_uninit is
waiting in cancel_delayed_work_sync, deadlock occurs.

	These deadlocks are resolved by having the workqueue functions
acquire RTNL conditionally.  If the rtnl_trylock() fails, the functions
reschedule and return immediately.  For the cases that are attempting to
perform link failover, a delay of 1 is used; for the other cases, the
normal interval is used (as those activities are not as time critical).

	Additionally, the bond_mii_monitor function now stores the delay
in a variable (mimicing the structure of activebackup_arp_mon).

	Lastly, all of the above renders the kill_timers sentinel moot,
and therefore it has been removed.

Tested-by: Mitsuo Hayasaka &lt;mitsuo.hayasaka.hu@hitachi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh &lt;fubar@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This patch resolves two sets of race conditions.

	Mitsuo Hayasaka &lt;mitsuo.hayasaka.hu@hitachi.com&gt; reported the
first, as follows:

The bond_close() calls cancel_delayed_work() to cancel delayed works.
It, however, cannot cancel works that were already queued in workqueue.
The bond_open() initializes work-&gt;data, and proccess_one_work() refers
get_work_cwq(work)-&gt;wq-&gt;flags. The get_work_cwq() returns NULL when
work-&gt;data has been initialized. Thus, a panic occurs.

	He included a patch that converted the cancel_delayed_work calls
in bond_close to flush_delayed_work_sync, which eliminated the above
problem.

	His patch is incorporated, at least in principle, into this
patch.  In this patch, we use cancel_delayed_work_sync in place of
flush_delayed_work_sync, and also convert bond_uninit in addition to
bond_close.

	This conversion to _sync, however, opens new races between
bond_close and three periodically executing workqueue functions:
bond_mii_monitor, bond_alb_monitor and bond_activebackup_arp_mon.

	The race occurs because bond_close and bond_uninit are always
called with RTNL held, and these workqueue functions may acquire RTNL to
perform failover-related activities.  If bond_close or bond_uninit is
waiting in cancel_delayed_work_sync, deadlock occurs.

	These deadlocks are resolved by having the workqueue functions
acquire RTNL conditionally.  If the rtnl_trylock() fails, the functions
reschedule and return immediately.  For the cases that are attempting to
perform link failover, a delay of 1 is used; for the other cases, the
normal interval is used (as those activities are not as time critical).

	Additionally, the bond_mii_monitor function now stores the delay
in a variable (mimicing the structure of activebackup_arp_mon).

	Lastly, all of the above renders the kill_timers sentinel moot,
and therefore it has been removed.

Tested-by: Mitsuo Hayasaka &lt;mitsuo.hayasaka.hu@hitachi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh &lt;fubar@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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