netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: 8021q: skip packets if the vlan is down

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Date:   Wed, 04 Oct 2017 18:23:29 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     Vishakha.Narvekar@...l.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, allen.hubbe@...l.com, andrew.boyer@...l.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: 8021q: skip packets if the vlan is down

From: Vishakha Narvekar <Vishakha.Narvekar@...l.com>
Date: Tue,  3 Oct 2017 16:13:29 -0400

> If the vlan is down, free the packet instead of proceeding with other
> processing, or counting it as received.  If vlan interfaces are used
> as slaves for bonding, with arp monitoring for connectivity, if the rx
> counter is seen to be incrementing, then the bond device will not
> observe that the interface is down.
> 
> CC: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
> Signed-off-by: Vishakha Narvekar <Vishakha.Narvekar@...l.com>

I've applied this for now.

This is likely the best we can do in the software case.

In the hardware offload case, we really should (via the notifier for
the vlan device going down), tell the hardware to stop receiving vlan
packets.