netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/3] net: fix conflict between null_or_orig and null_or

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Message-Id: <20100602.033554.67893995.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 02 Jun 2010 03:35:54 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	john.r.fastabend@...el.com
Cc:	andy@...yhouse.net, fubar@...ibm.com, nhorman@...driver.com,
	bonding-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] net: fix conflict between null_or_orig and
 null_or_bond

From: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@...el.com>
Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 00:31:11 -0700

> If a skb is received on an inactive bond that does not meet
> the special cases checked for by skb_bond_should_drop it should
> only be delivered to exact matches as the comment in
> netif_receive_skb() says.
> 
> However because null_or_bond could also be null this is not
> always true.  This patch renames null_or_bond to orig_or_bond
> and initializes it to orig_dev.  This keeps the intent of
> null_or_bond to pass frames received on VLAN interfaces stacked
> on bonding interfaces without invalidating the statement for
> null_or_orig.
> 
> Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@...el.com>

Also applied.
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