-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Stefan Rompf [VLAN]: Fix link state propagation When the queue of the underlying device is stopped at initialization time or the device is marked "not present", the state will be propagated to the vlan device and never change. Based on an analysis by Patrick McHardy. Signed-off-by: Stefan Rompf ACKed-by: Patrick McHardy Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- net/8021q/vlan.c | 8 +++----- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.17.7.orig/net/8021q/vlan.c +++ linux-2.6.17.7/net/8021q/vlan.c @@ -67,10 +67,6 @@ static struct packet_type vlan_packet_ty .func = vlan_skb_recv, /* VLAN receive method */ }; -/* Bits of netdev state that are propagated from real device to virtual */ -#define VLAN_LINK_STATE_MASK \ - ((1<<__LINK_STATE_PRESENT)|(1<<__LINK_STATE_NOCARRIER)|(1<<__LINK_STATE_DORMANT)) - /* End of global variables definitions. */ /* @@ -470,7 +466,9 @@ static struct net_device *register_vlan_ new_dev->flags = real_dev->flags; new_dev->flags &= ~IFF_UP; - new_dev->state = real_dev->state & ~(1<<__LINK_STATE_START); + new_dev->state = (real_dev->state & ((1<<__LINK_STATE_NOCARRIER) | + (1<<__LINK_STATE_DORMANT))) | + (1<<__LINK_STATE_PRESENT); /* need 4 bytes for extra VLAN header info, * hope the underlying device can handle it. -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/