netdev - Re: [PATCH] net/core: Allow tagged VLAN packets to flow through VETH devices.

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Date:	Thu, 21 Oct 2010 04:07:17 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	greearb@...delatech.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/core: Allow tagged VLAN packets to flow through
 VETH devices.

From: Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 11:35:05 -0700

> When there are VLANs on a VETH device, the packets being transmitted
> through the VETH device may be 4 bytes bigger than MTU.  A check
> in dev_forward_skb did not take this into account and so dropped
> these packets.
> 
> This patch is needed at least as far back as 2.6.34.7 and should
> be considered for -stable.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>

Applied, although a check of the vlan-capable netdev flag
might be appropriate to add.
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