linux-kernel - [ 148/184] bridge: set priority of STP packets

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Date:	Tue, 04 Jun 2013 19:23:58 +0200
From:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
Subject: [ 148/184] bridge: set priority of STP packets

2.6.32-longterm review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>

Spanning Tree Protocol packets should have always been marked as
control packets, this causes them to get queued in the high prirority
FIFO. As Radia Perlman mentioned in her LCA talk, STP dies if bridge
gets overloaded and can't communicate. This is a long-standing bug back
to the first versions of Linux bridge.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
(cherry picked from commit 547b4e718115eea74087e28d7fa70aec619200db)
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
---
 net/bridge/br_stp_bpdu.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/bridge/br_stp_bpdu.c b/net/bridge/br_stp_bpdu.c
index 81ae40b..108215b 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_stp_bpdu.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_stp_bpdu.c
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 #include <linux/netfilter_bridge.h>
 #include <linux/etherdevice.h>
 #include <linux/llc.h>
+#include <linux/pkt_sched.h>
 #include <net/net_namespace.h>
 #include <net/llc.h>
 #include <net/llc_pdu.h>
@@ -39,6 +40,7 @@ static void br_send_bpdu(struct net_bridge_port *p,
 
 	skb->dev = p->dev;
 	skb->protocol = htons(ETH_P_802_2);
+	skb->priority = TC_PRIO_CONTROL;
 
 	skb_reserve(skb, LLC_RESERVE);
 	memcpy(__skb_put(skb, length), data, length);
-- 
1.7.12.2.21.g234cd45.dirty



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