From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Shani Peretz <shperetz@nvidia.com>
Cc: <dev@dpdk.org>, <stable@dpdk.org>,
Chas Williams <3chas3@gmail.com>,
"Min Hu (Connor)" <humin29@huawei.com>,
Pawel Wodkowski <pawelwod@gmail.com>,
Declan Doherty <declan.doherty@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/bonding: fix MAC address propagation in 802.3ad mode
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2025 11:03:31 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251105110331.1975b42a@phoenix> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251105180135.1181619-1-shperetz@nvidia.com>
On Wed, 5 Nov 2025 20:01:35 +0200
Shani Peretz <shperetz@nvidia.com> wrote:
> When changing the MAC address of a bonding device in 802.3ad mode,
> the new MAC was not propagated to the physical member NIC.
> This caused the physical NIC to drop all data packets sent to the
> new MAC address, resulting in connectivity loss.
>
> It happens because the MAC update function only updated the
> LACP layer (actor.system) but not the physical NIC hardware MAC
> addresses.
>
> This fix adds a call to rte_eth_dev_default_mac_addr_set() to update
> the hardware MAC on each member port.
>
> Bugzilla ID: 1158
> Fixes: 46fb43683679 ("bond: add mode 4")
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
>
> Signed-off-by: Shani Peretz <shperetz@nvidia.com>
> ---
Queued to next-net.
Modified patch to put check on oneline since max line length in DPDK is 100.
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