netdev - Re: [PATCH net 1/2] macvlan: forbid L2 fowarding offload for macvtap

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Message-Id: <20140106.154740.590358835696689785.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 06 Jan 2014 15:47:40 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jasowang@...hat.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	mst@...hat.com, john.r.fastabend@...el.com, nhorman@...driver.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/2] macvlan: forbid L2 fowarding offload for
 macvtap

From: Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
Date: Mon,  6 Jan 2014 11:21:06 +0800

> L2 fowarding offload will bypass the rx handler of real device. This will make
> the packet could not be forwarded to macvtap device. Another problem is the
> dev_hard_start_xmit() called for macvtap does not have any synchronization.
> 
> Fix this by forbidding L2 forwarding for macvtap.
> 
> Cc: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@...el.com>
> Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>

I think I agree with Neil that the rx_handler change might be the best
way to fix this.  That change seems to have a lot of nice unintended
side effects, no?
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