netdev - Re: [patch net-2.6] vlan: reset headers on accel emulation path

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Message-ID: <20110818181653.GA18213@suse.de>
Date:	Thu, 18 Aug 2011 11:16:53 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, kaber@...sh.net,
	shemminger@...ux-foundation.org, eric.dumazet@...il.com
Subject: Re: [patch net-2.6] vlan: reset headers on accel emulation path

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 06:35:45PM +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> It's after all necessary to do reset headers here. The reason is we
> cannot depend that it gets reseted in __netif_receive_skb once skb is
> reinjected. For incoming vlanids without vlan_dev, vlan_do_receive()
> returns false with skb != NULL and __netif_reveive_skb continues, skb is
> not reinjected.
> 
> This might be good material for 3.0-stable as well

<formletter>

This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
stable kernel tree.  Please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt
for how to do this properly.

</formletter>
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