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s390/qeth: Fix potential loss of L3-IP@ in case of network issues

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.

3caa4af834df ("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: 4a71df50047f ("qeth: new qeth device driver")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexandra Winter <wintera@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240206085849.2902775-1-wintera@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>

authored by

Alexandra Winter and committed by
Paolo Abeni
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drivers/s390/net/qeth_l3_main.c
··· 255 255 if (!recover) { 256 256 hash_del(&addr->hnode); 257 257 kfree(addr); 258 - continue; 258 + } else { 259 + /* prepare for recovery */ 260 + addr->disp_flag = QETH_DISP_ADDR_ADD; 259 261 } 260 - addr->disp_flag = QETH_DISP_ADDR_ADD; 261 262 } 262 263 263 264 mutex_unlock(&card->ip_lock); ··· 279 278 if (addr->disp_flag == QETH_DISP_ADDR_ADD) { 280 279 rc = qeth_l3_register_addr_entry(card, addr); 281 280 282 - if (!rc) { 281 + if (!rc || rc == -EADDRINUSE || rc == -ENETDOWN) { 282 + /* keep it in the records */ 283 283 addr->disp_flag = QETH_DISP_ADDR_DO_NOTHING; 284 284 } else { 285 + /* bad address */ 285 286 hash_del(&addr->hnode); 286 287 kfree(addr); 287 288 }