Yes, it was 567b871e503316b0927e54a3d7c86d50b722d955. If it does appear that upstream did not receive it, I'd be happy to submit it to them and let you know if it's accepted.
Thanks! On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Joseph Salisbury <[email protected]> wrote: > Do you happen to have the SHA1 for the commit in 3.8 that fixes the bug? > If so, we can look and see if upstream stable was CC'd. If it was, then > it will automatically be applied to stable. However, it sounds like you > had to do some work to backport the patch, so it may be best for you to > submit your changes upstream. > > To submit your patch, send your patch with the detailed > description/changelog and your Signoff (ending with Signed-off-by: your > name <email>), to the emails listed from ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl > drivers/SUBSYSTEM-DETAILS (the get_maintainer.pl is from the kernel > sources) as well as [email protected]. Once you have sent the patch > upstream and it's accepted, please drop a note here so that we can > cherry-pick/include the patch into Ubuntu kernel. > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1098302 > > Title: > Bonding mode Balance-ALB stomps VM MACs > > Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: > Triaged > > Bug description: > This issue was fixed in the 3.8 kernel series; I have backported the > appropriate patch (as directed by the netdev kernel list) to the 3.0 > kernel and it worked successfully on several machines. I have built > but NOT tested this patch against 3.2 and 3.4 kernels. The patch > appears to require minor modification for inclusion in the 3.7 kernel > series. The issue resolved is as follows: > > This issue affects (at the least) virtual machines running under KVM > and using bridging to connect to a network, when that bridge > communicates over a bond using mode-6 (balance-alb). To replicate, > configure a bond of 1 or more adapters with mode-6 and bridge over > that bond. Configure a virtual machine (in my instance, I used KVM) > to place its vnet adapter under the same bridge. With the VM running, > ping the virtual machine from a remote host and check the ARP cache on > the remote host. You will find that the MAC reported for the virtual > machine will not be its configured MAC, but the MAC of one of the > bond's slaves. This causes intermittent and significant connectivity > losses (both to and from the virtual machine). > > The patch modifies the balance-alb bonding driver to leave non-local > MACs unmodified. After application, a repeat of the above test should > result in the virtual machine's correct MAC being reported in the ARP > cache of the remote host. > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1098302/+subscriptions -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1098302 Title: Bonding mode Balance-ALB stomps VM MACs To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1098302/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
