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Message-ID: <CA+FuTSdfvctFD3AVMHzQV9efQERcKVE1TcYVD_T84eSgq9x4OA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Sat, 18 Jul 2020 11:58:09 -0400
From:   Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>
To:     Sriram Krishnan <srirakr2@...co.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        xe-linux-external@...co.com,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] AF_PACKET doesnt strip VLAN information

On Sat, Jul 18, 2020 at 5:25 AM Sriram Krishnan <srirakr2@...co.com> wrote:
>
> When an application sends with AF_PACKET and places a vlan header on
> the raw packet; then the AF_PACKET needs to move the tag into the skb
> so that it gets processed normally through the rest of the transmit
> path.
>
> This is particularly a problem on Hyper-V where the host only allows
> vlan in the offload info.

Shouldn't this be resolved in that driver, then?

Packet sockets are not the only way to introduce packets in the
kernel. Tuntap would be another.

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