netdev - Re: [PATCH] macvlan: fix oops with vlan-on-top and HW_VLAN_CTAG

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Date:	Fri, 03 Jan 2014 15:33:52 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	fw@...len.de
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] macvlan: fix oops with vlan-on-top and HW_VLAN_CTAG_TX
 lowerdev

From: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 12:39:04 +0100

>> +static const struct header_ops vlan_passthru_header_ops = {
>> +	.create	 = vlan_passthru_hard_header,
>> +	.rebuild = dev_rebuild_header,
> 
> Doesn't that result in infinite recursion when invoking
> dev_rebuild_header() on skb whose dev->header_ops is
> vlan_passthru_header_ops?

The skb->dev should be the real_dev at this point, no?
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