Bonding interface shows an erroneous primary slave

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

The bonding interface bond1 is showing as primary slave eth3 when eth3 does not belong to this bonding:

# cat /proc/net/bonding/bond1
Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v2.6.3-rh (June 8, 2005)

Bonding Mode: fault-tolerance (active-backup)
Primary Slave: eth3
Currently Active Slave: eth4
MII Status: up
MII Polling Interval (ms): 100
Up Delay (ms): 500
Down Delay (ms): 500

Slave Interface: eth4
MII Status: up
Link Failure Count: 0
Permanent HW addr: 00:11:22:33:44:55

Slave Interface: eth7
MII Status: up
Link Failure Count: 0
Permanent HW addr: 55:44:33:22:11:00

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4

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