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

Patrick McHardy
2009-03-05T05:52:21Z

Bart Trojanowski wrote:
>>> 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.
>
> ... if you're interested, here is the Oops. And like I said, I'll
> retest tomorrow.

Thanks, I'll try to reproduce it here.