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Commit eb3f8b42 authored by David S. Miller's avatar David S. Miller
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Merge branch 'vlan-reorder'



Vladislav Yasevich says:

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Fix issues with vlans without REORDER_HEADER

A while ago Phil Sutter brought up an issue with vlans without
REORDER_HEADER and bridges.  The problem was that if a vlan
without REORDER_HEADER was a port in the bridge, the bridge ended
up forwarding corrupted packets that still contained the vlan header.
The same issue exists for bridge mode macvlan/macvtap devices.

An additional issue with vlans without REORDER_HEADER is that stacking
them also doesn't work.  The reason here is that skb_reorder_vlan_header()
function assumes that it on ETH_HLEN bytes deep into the packet.  That
is not the case, when you a vlan without REORRDER_HEADER flag set.

This series attempts to correct these 2 issues.

1) To solve the stacked vlans problem, the patch simply use
skb->mac_len as an offset to start copying mac addresses that
is part of header reordering.

2) To fix the issue with bridge/macvlan/macvtap, the second patch
simply doesn't write the vlan header back to the packet if the
vlan device is either a bridge or a macvlan port.  This ends up
being the simplest and least performance intrussive solution.

I've considered extending patch 2 to all stacked devices (essentially
checked for the presense of rx_handler), but that feels like a broader
restriction and _may_ break existing uses.
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Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parents 6c606fa3 28f9ee22
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