netdev - [PATCH 1/2] vlan: only create special VLAN 0 once

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Date:	Fri, 3 Jun 2011 22:07:38 +0200
From:	Jiri Bohac <jbohac@...e.cz>
To:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Pedro Garcia <pedro.netdev@...devamos.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] vlan: only create special VLAN 0 once

Commit ad1afb00 registers a VLAN with vid == 0 for every device to handle
802.1p frames.  This is currently done on every NETDEV_UP event and the special
vlan is never unregistered.  This may have strange effects on drivers
implementning ndo_vlan_rx_add_vid(). E.g. bonding will allocate a linked-list
element each time, causing a memory leak.

Only register the special VLAN once on NETDEV_REGISTER.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@...e.cz>

diff --git a/net/8021q/vlan.c b/net/8021q/vlan.c
index c7a581a..bf89565 100644
--- a/net/8021q/vlan.c
+++ b/net/8021q/vlan.c
@@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ static int vlan_device_event(struct notifier_block *unused, unsigned long event,
 	if (is_vlan_dev(dev))
 		__vlan_device_event(dev, event);
 
-	if ((event == NETDEV_UP) &&
+	if ((event == NETDEV_REGISTER) &&
 	    (dev->features & NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_FILTER) &&
 	    dev->netdev_ops->ndo_vlan_rx_add_vid) {
 		pr_info("8021q: adding VLAN 0 to HW filter on device %s\n",

-- 
Jiri Bohac <jbohac@...e.cz>
SUSE Labs, SUSE CZ

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