Re: [PATCH net v3] bonding: fix missing down path on speed/duplex failure after FAIL->UP

[Timur Stukan]

On Sun, 1 Nov 2026 at 17:08, <netdev-bot+sinfo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> This is an automated message. This series looks like a fix, but its
> commit messages seem to be missing some information:
>
>  - How the issue was discovered, e.g. hit in production, hit during
>    development, syzbot report, manual code inspection, LLM or static
>    analysis tool scan.
>
> Please do not repost the series just to address the above. Instead,
> reply to this email with the missing information, so that reviewers
> can take it into account. If the series needs another revision for
> other reasons, please include the information in the commit messages
> then.
>
> The evaluation is done by an LLM so it may be wrong, if you think
> that is the case please reply and explain.

Hi,

This was found by manual code inspection of bond_miimon_commit() while
working on the bonding driver, and then reproduced in a VM with e1000e
interfaces.

Timur.