From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: jiri@resnulli.us, netdev@vger.kernel.org, jiri@mellanox.com,
aduyck@mirantis.com, edumazet@google.com, daniel@iogearbox.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: avoid vlan ptype specific match to be leaked on real device
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 11:28:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1467019712.4606.7.camel@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160626.160608.2073563033978522175.davem@davemloft.net>
On Sun, 2016-06-26 at 16:06 -0400, David Miller wrote:
> From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
> Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 14:40:50 +0200
>
> > The patch only unified the behaviour so everyone know what to expect
> > regardless of the device type.
>
> +1
>
> And reverting this behavior back is going to hurt more people than it
> will help, so I am not going to apply this, sorry.
Would a /proc/net/vlan sysctl to control the switch from the new to the
old behavior (with default to the new) make this acceptable ?
Recent users will not be affected, and users of the old behavior could
manage kernel upgrade without breaking their applications.
Thank you,
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-27 9:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-22 10:25 [PATCH net] net: avoid vlan ptype specific match to be leaked on real device Paolo Abeni
2016-06-22 10:55 ` Jiri Pirko
2016-06-22 12:21 ` Paolo Abeni
2016-06-22 12:40 ` Jiri Pirko
2016-06-26 20:06 ` David Miller
2016-06-27 9:28 ` Paolo Abeni [this message]
2016-06-27 9:37 ` Jiri Pirko
2016-06-27 13:43 ` David Miller
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