netdev - Re: [BUG] 2.6.29-rc* QinQ vlan trunking regression

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Message-ID: <49AF687D.9080708@trash.net>
Date:	Thu, 05 Mar 2009 06:51:57 +0100
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Bart Trojanowski <bart@...ie.net>
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, greearb@...delatech.com,
	shemminger@...tta.com, dada1@...mosbay.com,
	frank.blaschka@...ibm.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.6.29-rc* QinQ vlan trunking regression

Bart Trojanowski wrote:
>>> As analyzed by Patrick McHardy, vlan needs to reset it's
>>> netdev_ops pointer in it's ->init() function but this
>>> leaves the compat method pointers stale.
>>>
>>> Add a netdev_resync_ops() and call it from the vlan code.
>> <snip>
>>>  include/linux/netdevice.h |    1 +
>>>  net/8021q/vlan_dev.c      |    1 +
>>>  net/core/dev.c            |   54 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
>>>  3 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
>> I tried this patch onto v2.6.29-rc7-3-g559595a, but I still get a crash.
>> I assume that this worked for you, so I am not putting much faith in my
>> results at this late hour.  I'll confirm tomorrow morning that it's not
>> something else.
> 
> ... if you're interested, here is the Oops.  And like I said, I'll
> retest tomorrow.

Thanks, I'll try to reproduce it here.
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