❦ 19 décembre 2018 23:57 +01, Michal Soltys <sol...@ziu.info>:
>>> Commit b89f04c61efe ("bonding: deliver link-local packets with
>>> skb->dev set to link that packets arrived on") changed the behavior
>>> of how link-local-multicast packets are processed. The change in
>>> the behavior broke some legacy use cases where these packets are
>>> expected to arrive on bonding master device also.
>>
>> Unfortunately, this doesn't completely restore the previous
>> functionality as PACKET_ORIGDEV is broken for the copy: the original
>> interface is lost through the call to netif_rx(). A LLDP daemon
>> listening to the master interface won't get the original interface like
>> it was able to before 4.12.
>>
>> I am a bit lost of what the original patch was trying to achieve. I am
>> using the following test program:
>>
>
> Basing on what you wrote below, it seems that everything was already
> possible before the Chonggang Li's commit ?
>
> If I understand correctly:
>
> - if listening on master, you could get both slave interface
> (PACKET_ORIGDEV) as well as bonding master
> - if listening on slave, you would just get the slave interface
>
> Right ?
Yes. This has been this way since 2.6.27.
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