netdev - Re: [BUG] kernel oops during bridge creation

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Message-ID: <20170406204452.GA24938@splinter>
Date:   Thu, 6 Apr 2017 23:44:52 +0300
From:   Ido Schimmel <idosch@...sch.org>
To:     Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>
Cc:     "Peter V. Saveliev" <peter@...nota.eu>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Ivan Vecera <ivecera@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG] kernel oops during bridge creation

On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 11:26:06PM +0300, Nikolay Aleksandrov wrote:
> Actually making br_vlan_init() idempotent might work, keep the code as-is just init the
> the vlans before the changelink() in newlink(), then the second vlan_init() inside would
> be a no-op, but it will work for the old ioctl and wouldn't require too much change.
> On the downside it will be ugly.

Yep, that can work. I'll try that tomorrow morning and let you know.

Thanks Nik!