From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755317Ab1AFX42 (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2011 18:56:28 -0500 Received: from mms2.broadcom.com ([216.31.210.18]:4659 "EHLO mms2.broadcom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754355Ab1AFX40 (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2011 18:56:26 -0500 X-Server-Uuid: D3C04415-6FA8-4F2C-93C1-920E106A2031 Subject: Re: 2.6.37 vlans on bnx2 not functional, panic with tcpdump From: "Michael Chan" To: "Iain Paton" cc: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" In-Reply-To: <4D2634DE.2060907@gmail.com> References: <4D2634DE.2060907@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 15:52:21 -0800 Message-ID: <1294357941.21580.2.camel@HP1> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.3 (2.12.3-8.el5) X-WSS-ID: 6138896B5L813400737-01-01 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 13:32 -0800, Iain Paton wrote: > Hi, > > vlans don't appear to be functional on my HP DL380G6 with onboard bnx2 > adapter using vanilla 2.6.37 kernel. No tagged vlan traffic > is arriving at the vlan interface. VLANs on net-next-2.6 kernel works for me on bnx2 devices. I'll try 2.6.37 next. > > To reproduce, use vanilla 2.6.37 built with the attached config > > ip link add link eth0 name v406 type vlan id 406 > ip link set up dev eth0 > ip link set up dev v406 > ip addr add 10.251.0.3/16 dev v406 > > from another machine on the same vlan run a ping to 10.251.0.3, ping > returns destination host unreachable. > > tcpdump -n -e -i v406 shows no traffic. > > If I then run > > tcpdump -n -e -i eth0 > > while the ping is still running I get > > [ 112.190114] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference > at 0000000000000008