From: Jiri Pirko <[email protected]>
Date: Fri,  1 Sep 2017 10:52:31 +0200

> From: Ido Schimmel <[email protected]>
> 
> The mlxsw driver relies on NETDEV_CHANGEUPPER events to configure the
> device in case a port is enslaved to a master netdev such as bridge or
> bond.
> 
> Since the driver ignores events unrelated to its ports and their
> uppers, it's possible to engineer situations in which the device's data
> path differs from the kernel's.
> 
> One example to such a situation is when a port is enslaved to a bond
> that is already enslaved to a bridge. When the bond was enslaved the
> driver ignored the event - as the bond wasn't one of its uppers - and
> therefore a bridge port instance isn't created in the device.
> 
> Until such configurations are supported forbid them by checking that the
> upper device doesn't have uppers of its own.
> 
> Fixes: 0d65fc13042f ("mlxsw: spectrum: Implement LAG port join/leave")
> Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <[email protected]>
> Reported-by: Nogah Frankel <[email protected]>
> Tested-by: Nogah Frankel <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <[email protected]>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.

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