bonding: Prevent duplicate userspace notification

Whenever a user changes bonding options, a NETDEV_CHANGEINFODATA
notificatin is generated which results in a rtnelink message to
be sent.  While runnig 'ip monitor', we can actually see 2 messages,
one a result of the event, and the other a result of state change
that is generated bo netdev_state_change().  However, this is not
always the case. If bonding changes were done via sysfs or ifenslave
(old ioctl interface), then only 1 message is seen.

This patch removes duplicate messages in the case of using netlink
to configure bonding.  It introduceds a separte function that
triggers a netdev event and uses that function in the syfs and ioctl
cases.

This was discovered while auditing all the different envents and
continues the effort of cleaning up duplicated netlink messages.

CC: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com>
CC: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Signed-off-by: Vladislav Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 25 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_options.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_options.c
index 1bcbb8913e17..8ca683396fcc 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_options.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_options.c
@@ -673,7 +673,30 @@ int __bond_opt_set(struct bonding *bond,
 out:
 	if (ret)
 		bond_opt_error_interpret(bond, opt, ret, val);
-	else if (bond->dev->reg_state == NETREG_REGISTERED)
+
+	return ret;
+}
+/**
+ * __bond_opt_set_notify - set a bonding option
+ * @bond: target bond device
+ * @option: option to set
+ * @val: value to set it to
+ *
+ * This function is used to change the bond's option value and trigger
+ * a notification to user sapce. It can be used for both enabling/changing
+ * an option and for disabling it. RTNL lock must be obtained before calling
+ * this function.
+ */
+int __bond_opt_set_notify(struct bonding *bond,
+			  unsigned int option, struct bond_opt_value *val)
+{
+	int ret = -ENOENT;
+
+	ASSERT_RTNL();
+
+	ret = __bond_opt_set(bond, option, val);
+
+	if (!ret && (bond->dev->reg_state == NETREG_REGISTERED))
 		call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_CHANGEINFODATA, bond->dev);
 
 	return ret;
@@ -696,7 +719,7 @@ int bond_opt_tryset_rtnl(struct bonding *bond, unsigned int option, char *buf)
 	if (!rtnl_trylock())
 		return restart_syscall();
 	bond_opt_initstr(&optval, buf);
-	ret = __bond_opt_set(bond, option, &optval);
+	ret = __bond_opt_set_notify(bond, option, &optval);
 	rtnl_unlock();
 
 	return ret;