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Message-ID: <4D72406B.6090504@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2011 14:53:47 +0100
From: Nicolas de Pesloüan
<nicolas.2p.debian@...il.com>
To: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>
CC: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] net/core: fix skb handling on netif serves for both
bridge and vlan
Le 05/03/2011 11:36, Jiri Pirko a écrit :
> Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 11:55:13AM CET, dfeng@...hat.com wrote:
>> Consider network topology as follows:
>>
>> eth0 eth1
>> |_____|
>> |
>> bond0 --- br0
>> |
>> vlan0 --- br1
>>
>> bond0 serves for both br0 and vlan0, if a vlan tagged packet was sent
>> to br1 through bond0, bridge handling code is seeing the packet on bond0
>> and handing it off to my "legacy" bridge before vlan_tx_tag_present
>> and vlan_hwaccel_do_receive even haven't a chance to look at it.
>>
>> Moving the vlan_tx_tag_present before bridge/macvlan handling code could
>> cure this.
>
> Wouldn't this break "eth0 - br0 - br0.5"?
I think it would. One more reason to build a single interface stacking framework...
Nicolas.
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