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    s390/qeth: Fix potential loss of L3-IP@ in case of network issues · 2fe8a236
    Alexandra Winter authored
    Symptom:
    In case of a bad cable connection (e.g. dirty optics) a fast sequence of
    network DOWN-UP-DOWN-UP could happen. UP triggers recovery of the qeth
    interface. In case of a second DOWN while recovery is still ongoing, it
    can happen that the IP@ of a Layer3 qeth interface is lost and will not
    be recovered by the second UP.
    
    Problem:
    When registration of IP addresses with Layer 3 qeth devices fails, (e.g.
    because of bad address format) the respective IP address is deleted from
    its hash-table in the driver. If registration fails because of a ENETDOWN
    condition, the address should stay in the hashtable, so a subsequent
    recovery can restore it.
    
    3caa4af8 ("qeth: keep ip-address after LAN_OFFLINE failure")
    fixes this for registration failures during normal operation, but not
    during recovery.
    
    Solution:
    Keep L3-IP address in case of ENETDOWN in qeth_l3_recover_ip(). For
    consistency with qeth_l3_add_ip() we also keep it in case of EADDRINUSE,
    i.e. for some reason the card already/still has this address registered.
    
    Fixes: 4a71df50 ("qeth: new qeth device driver")
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexandra Winter <wintera@linux.ibm.com>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240206085849.2902775-1-wintera@linux.ibm.comSigned-off-by: default avatarPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
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