[Devel] [PATCH vz10 1/3] ms/bonding: fix xfrm offload feature setup on active-backup mode

Eva Kurchatova eva.kurchatova at virtuozzo.com
Tue Sep 1 02:39:50 MSK 2026


From: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin at gmail.com>

The active-backup bonding mode supports XFRM ESP offload. However, when
a bond is added using command like `ip link add bond0 type bond mode 1
miimon 100`, the `ethtool -k` command shows that the XFRM ESP offload is
disabled. This occurs because, in bond_newlink(), we change bond link
first and register bond device later. So the XFRM feature update in
bond_option_mode_set() is not called as the bond device is not yet
registered, leading to the offload feature not being set successfully.

To resolve this issue, we can modify the code order in bond_newlink() to
ensure that the bond device is registered first before changing the bond
link parameters. This change will allow the XFRM ESP offload feature to be
correctly enabled.

Fixes: 007ab5345545 ("bonding: fix feature flag setting at init time")
Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin at gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250925023304.472186-1-liuhangbin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni at redhat.com>

The ipsec offload selftest that came with this fix is in the tree, the
fix was not, so bond0 is created with the features off and the test
sees no offloaded packets.

(cherry picked from commit 5b66169f6be4847008c0aea50885ff0632151479)

https://virtuozzo.atlassian.net/browse/VSTOR-139651
Feature: fix ms/net
Signed-off-by: Eva Kurchatova <eva.kurchatova at virtuozzo.com>
---
 drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c    |  2 +-
 drivers/net/bonding/bond_netlink.c | 16 +++++++++-------
 include/net/bonding.h              |  1 +
 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
index 67fd0c4cfb2e..79f2a4183d8a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
@@ -4401,7 +4401,7 @@ void bond_work_init_all(struct bonding *bond)
 	INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&bond->slave_arr_work, bond_slave_arr_handler);
 }
 
-static void bond_work_cancel_all(struct bonding *bond)
+void bond_work_cancel_all(struct bonding *bond)
 {
 	cancel_delayed_work_sync(&bond->mii_work);
 	cancel_delayed_work_sync(&bond->arp_work);
diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_netlink.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_netlink.c
index d066a6d948f7..4f2b0f398a5b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_netlink.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_netlink.c
@@ -595,18 +595,20 @@ static int bond_newlink(struct net *src_net, struct net_device *bond_dev,
 			struct nlattr *tb[], struct nlattr *data[],
 			struct netlink_ext_ack *extack)
 {
+	struct bonding *bond = netdev_priv(bond_dev);
 	int err;
 
-	err = bond_changelink(bond_dev, tb, data, extack);
-	if (err < 0)
+	err = register_netdevice(bond_dev);
+	if (err)
 		return err;
 
-	err = register_netdevice(bond_dev);
-	if (!err) {
-		struct bonding *bond = netdev_priv(bond_dev);
+	netif_carrier_off(bond_dev);
+	bond_work_init_all(bond);
 
-		netif_carrier_off(bond_dev);
-		bond_work_init_all(bond);
+	err = bond_changelink(bond_dev, tb, data, extack);
+	if (err) {
+		bond_work_cancel_all(bond);
+		unregister_netdevice(bond_dev);
 	}
 
 	return err;
diff --git a/include/net/bonding.h b/include/net/bonding.h
index e06f0d63b2c1..bd56ad976cfb 100644
--- a/include/net/bonding.h
+++ b/include/net/bonding.h
@@ -711,6 +711,7 @@ struct bond_vlan_tag *bond_verify_device_path(struct net_device *start_dev,
 int bond_update_slave_arr(struct bonding *bond, struct slave *skipslave);
 void bond_slave_arr_work_rearm(struct bonding *bond, unsigned long delay);
 void bond_work_init_all(struct bonding *bond);
+void bond_work_cancel_all(struct bonding *bond);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
 void bond_create_proc_entry(struct bonding *bond);
-- 
2.55.0



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