netdev - skbs delivered to 'wrong' packet

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Date:	Wed, 7 Aug 2013 15:08:56 +0200
From:	Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@...csson.com>
To:	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>
CC:	<tipc-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net>, <jon.maloy@...csson.com>,
	<ying.xue@...driver.com>
Subject: skbs delivered to 'wrong' packet_type handler

We have a race condition in TIPC when using both the parent ethernet 
device, and a vlan on top of this device as TIPC bearers. For some reason, 
net/core/dev.c is delivering vlan packets to packet handlers registered to 
the native device. This only seems to occur when a packet_type handler is 
registered on both the vlan device and it's parent ethernet device. This 
causes all kinds of weird behaviour in TIPC, from cross-vlan links being 
established to oopses.

At first, i thought this was due to a missing PACKET_OTHERHOST filtering
in the TIPC ethernet code, but adding that check did not resolve the issue.
Adding an explicit check for skb->dev vs packet_type->dev does work, but
i dont think that's the proper way to solve it.
What's the purpose of having a dev entry in the packet_type if it's ignored 
by the lower layers?

//E
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