From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH 2.6.36 stable] vlan: Avoid hwaccel vlan packets when vid not used.
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 11:50:19 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101207195019.GP13189@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1289251381-6671-1-git-send-email-jesse@nicira.com>
On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 01:23:01PM -0800, Jesse Gross wrote:
> Normally hardware accelerated vlan packets are quickly dropped if
> there is no corresponding vlan device configured. The one exception
> is promiscuous mode, where we allow all of these packets through so
> they can be picked up by tcpdump. However, this behavior causes a
> crash if we actually try to receive these packets. This fixes that
> crash by ignoring packets with vids not corresponding to a configured
> device in the vlan hwaccel routines and then dropping them before they
> get to consumers in the network stack.
>
> This patch applies only to 2.6.36 stable. The problem was introduced
> in that release and is already fixed by larger changes to the vlan
> code in 2.6.37.
Applied, thanks.
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-07 20:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-08 21:23 [PATCH 2.6.36 stable] vlan: Avoid hwaccel vlan packets when vid not used Jesse Gross
2010-11-08 21:26 ` David Miller
2010-12-07 19:50 ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-12-07 20:50 ` [stable] " Eric Dumazet
2010-12-07 21:03 ` Greg KH
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