[Bug 2003250] Re: networkctl reload with bond devices causes slaves to go DOWN and UP, causing couple of seconds of network loss

[Ioanna Alifieraki]

** Description changed:

+ [SRU TEMPLATE]
+ 
+ [DESCRIPTION]
+ 
  We currently use Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS including updates for our production cloud (switched from legacy Centos 7).
  Although we like the distribution we recently hit serious systemd buggy behavior described in [1] bugreport using packages [2].
  
  Unfortunatelly the clouds we are running consist of openstack on top of
  kubernetes and we need to have complex network configuration including
  linux bond devices.
  
  Our observation is that every time we apply our configuration via CI/CD
  infrastructure using ansible and netplan (regardless whether there is
  actual network configuration change) we see approximatelly 8-16 seconds
  network interruptions and see bond interfaces going DOWN and then UP.
  
  We expect bond interfaces stay UP when there is no network configuration
  change.
  
  We went though couple of options how to solve the issue and the first
  one is to add such existing patch [3] into current
  systemd-249.11-0ubuntu3.6.
  
  Could you comment whether this kind of non-security patch is likely to land in 22.04.1 LTS soon.
  We are able to help to bring patch into systemd package community way if you suggest the steps.
  
  
+ [TESTING]
+ 
+ Setup a jammy vm with a bond interface.
+ Then:
+ 
+ # touch /run/systemd/network/*
+ # networkctl reload
+ 
+ You can see in the logs the interfaces of the bond going up and down.
+ With the fix they don't.
+ 
+ [REGRESSION POTENTIAL]
+ 
+ 
+ [OTHER]
+ 
  [1] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/25067
  [2] Packages
  root at controlplane-001:/etc/apt0# apt list | grep -E '^(systemd/|netplan.io)'
  netplan.io/jammy-updates,now 0.105-0ubuntu2~22.04.1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
  systemd/jammy-updates,now 249.11-0ubuntu3.6 amd64 [installed,automatic]
  [3] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/25162
  [4] # lsb_release -rd
  Description:    Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS
  Release:        22.04

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Title:
  networkctl reload with bond devices causes slaves to go DOWN and UP,
  causing couple of seconds of network loss

Status in systemd package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in systemd source package in Jammy:
  Triaged
Status in systemd source package in Kinetic:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  [SRU TEMPLATE]

  [DESCRIPTION]

  We currently use Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS including updates for our production cloud (switched from legacy Centos 7).
  Although we like the distribution we recently hit serious systemd buggy behavior described in [1] bugreport using packages [2].

  Unfortunatelly the clouds we are running consist of openstack on top
  of kubernetes and we need to have complex network configuration
  including linux bond devices.

  Our observation is that every time we apply our configuration via
  CI/CD infrastructure using ansible and netplan (regardless whether
  there is actual network configuration change) we see approximatelly
  8-16 seconds network interruptions and see bond interfaces going DOWN
  and then UP.

  We expect bond interfaces stay UP when there is no network
  configuration change.

  We went though couple of options how to solve the issue and the first
  one is to add such existing patch [3] into current
  systemd-249.11-0ubuntu3.6.

  Could you comment whether this kind of non-security patch is likely to land in 22.04.1 LTS soon.
  We are able to help to bring patch into systemd package community way if you suggest the steps.

  
  [TESTING]

  Setup a jammy vm with a bond interface.
  Then:

  # touch /run/systemd/network/*
  # networkctl reload

  You can see in the logs the interfaces of the bond going up and down.
  With the fix they don't.

  [REGRESSION POTENTIAL]

  
  [OTHER]

  [1] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/25067
  [2] Packages
  root at controlplane-001:/etc/apt0# apt list | grep -E '^(systemd/|netplan.io)'
  netplan.io/jammy-updates,now 0.105-0ubuntu2~22.04.1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
  systemd/jammy-updates,now 249.11-0ubuntu3.6 amd64 [installed,automatic]
  [3] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/25162
  [4] # lsb_release -rd
  Description:    Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS
  Release:        22.04

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