From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <ra...@blackwall.org>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 21:52:51 +0200
> From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <niko...@cumulusnetworks.com>
>
> When the bonding is being unloaded and the netdevice notifier is
> unregistered it executes NETDEV_UNREGISTER for each device which should
> remove the bond's proc entry but if the device enslaved is not of
> ARPHRD_ETHER type and is in front of the bonding, it may execute
> bond_release_and_destroy() first which would release the last slave and
> destroy the bond device leaving the proc entry and thus we will get the
> following error (with dynamic debug on for bond_netdev_event to see the
> events order):
...
> Thus remove the proc entry manually if bond_release_and_destroy() is
> used. Because of the checks in bond_remove_proc_entry() it's not a
> problem for a bond device to change namespaces (the bug fixed by the
> Fixes commit) but since commit
> f9399814927ad ("bonding: Don't allow bond devices to change network
> namespaces.") that can't happen anyway.
>
> Reported-by: Carol Soto <cls...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <niko...@cumulusnetworks.com>
> Fixes: a64d49c3dd50 ("bonding: Manage /proc/net/bonding/ entries from
> the netdev events")
Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.
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