Re: [BUG] 2.6.29-rc* QinQ vlan trunking regression

Bart Trojanowski
2009-03-05T04:54:58Z

David,

* David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> [090304 22:53]:
> vlan: Fix vlan-in-vlan crashes.
>
> As analyzed by Patrick McHardy, vlan needs to reset it's
> netdev_ops pointer in it's ->init() function but this
> leaves the compat method pointers stale.
>
> Add a netdev_resync_ops() and call it from the vlan code.
<snip>
> include/linux/netdevice.h | 1 +
> net/8021q/vlan_dev.c | 1 +
> net/core/dev.c | 54 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
> 3 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

I tried this patch onto v2.6.29-rc7-3-g559595a, but I still get a crash.
I assume that this worked for you, so I am not putting much faith in my
results at this late hour. I'll confirm tomorrow morning that it's not
something else.

Cheers,
-Bart

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