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

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Date:	Thu, 18 Aug 2011 21:29:44 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jpirko@...hat.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, gregkh@...e.de, kaber@...sh.net,
	shemminger@...ux-foundation.org, eric.dumazet@...il.com
Subject: Re: [patch net-2.6] vlan: reset headers on accel emulation path

From: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 18:35:45 +0200

> 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
> 
> Reported-by: Mike Auty <mike.auty@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks Jiri!
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