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Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2010 21:50:26 +0100 From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> To: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> Cc: Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>, stable@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH 2.6.36 stable] vlan: Avoid hwaccel vlan packets when vid not used. Le mardi 07 décembre 2010 à 11:50 -0800, Greg KH a écrit : > On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 01:23:01PM -0800, Jesse Gross wrote: > > Normally hardware accelerated vlan packets are quickly dropped if > > there is no corresponding vlan device configured. The one exception > > is promiscuous mode, where we allow all of these packets through so > > they can be picked up by tcpdump. However, this behavior causes a > > crash if we actually try to receive these packets. This fixes that > > crash by ignoring packets with vids not corresponding to a configured > > device in the vlan hwaccel routines and then dropping them before they > > get to consumers in the network stack. > > > > This patch applies only to 2.6.36 stable. The problem was introduced > > in that release and is already fixed by larger changes to the vlan > > code in 2.6.37. > > Applied, thanks. > Oh well, which version ? A new version of the patch was submitted 6 days ago . http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/73791/ Thanks -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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