netdev - Re: [stable] [PATCH] bonding/vlan: Avoid mangled NAs on slaves without VLAN tag insertion

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Date:	Wed, 16 Feb 2011 13:58:55 -0800
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	bhutchings@...arflare.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	fubar@...ibm.com, stable@...nel.org,
	bonding-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH] bonding/vlan: Avoid mangled NAs on slaves
 without VLAN tag insertion

On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 01:17:54PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
> Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 19:20:55 +0000
> 
> > This is related to commit f88a4a9b65a6f3422b81be995535d0e69df11bb8
> > upstream, but the bug cannot be properly fixed without the other
> > changes to VLAN tagging in 2.6.37.
> > 
> > bond_na_send() attempts to insert a VLAN tag in between building and
> > sending packets of the respective formats.  If the slave does not
> > implement hardware VLAN tag insertion then vlan_put_tag() will mangle
> > the network-layer header because the Ethernet header is not present at
> > this point (unlike in bond_arp_send()).
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
> 
> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>

Great, thanks for the patch, now queued up for the next .32-stable
release.

greg k-h
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