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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Roger Luethi <rl@hellgate.ch>, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: VLAN packets silently dropped in promiscuous mode
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:55:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1285840532.2615.196.camel@edumazet-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1285838215.2615.126.camel@edumazet-laptop>

Le jeudi 30 septembre 2010 à 11:16 +0200, Eric Dumazet a écrit :

> Agreed
> 
> Could you try following patch, based on net-next-2.6 ?

Here is the official patch I cooked for net-2.6 (linux-2.6)

I tested it successfully with a tg3 NIC.

Thanks

[PATCH] vlan: dont drop packets from unknown vlans in promiscuous mode

Roger Luethi noticed packets for unknown VLANs getting silently dropped
even in promiscuous mode.

Check for promiscuous mode in __vlan_hwaccel_rx() and vlan_gro_common()
before drops.

Reported-by: Roger Luethi <rl@hellgate.ch>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
---
 net/8021q/vlan_core.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/8021q/vlan_core.c b/net/8021q/vlan_core.c
index 01ddb04..ba502b4 100644
--- a/net/8021q/vlan_core.c
+++ b/net/8021q/vlan_core.c
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ int __vlan_hwaccel_rx(struct sk_buff *skb, struct vlan_group *grp,
 
 	if (vlan_dev)
 		skb->dev = vlan_dev;
-	else if (vlan_id)
+	else if (vlan_id && !(skb->dev->flags & IFF_PROMISC))
 		goto drop;
 
 	return (polling ? netif_receive_skb(skb) : netif_rx(skb));
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ vlan_gro_common(struct napi_struct *napi, struct vlan_group *grp,
 
 	if (vlan_dev)
 		skb->dev = vlan_dev;
-	else if (vlan_id)
+	else if (vlan_id && !(skb->dev->flags & IFF_PROMISC))
 		goto drop;
 
 	for (p = napi->gro_list; p; p = p->next) {



  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-30  9:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-29 11:37 VLAN packets silently dropped in promiscuous mode Roger Luethi
2010-09-29 17:44 ` Jesse Gross
2010-09-30  8:07   ` Roger Luethi
2010-09-30  9:16     ` Eric Dumazet
2010-09-30  9:55       ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2010-09-30 10:40         ` Eric Dumazet
2010-09-30 10:50           ` Patrick McHardy
2010-09-30 12:16             ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-01  1:04               ` David Miller
2010-09-30 21:21     ` Jesse Gross
2010-09-30 22:04       ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-01  2:37         ` Jesse Gross
2010-10-01  5:10           ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-01  7:06             ` [PATCH net-next] net: add a core netdev->rx_dropped counter Eric Dumazet
2010-10-04 20:27               ` Jesse Gross
2010-10-05 21:48               ` David Miller
2010-10-01  8:41             ` VLAN packets silently dropped in promiscuous mode Eric Dumazet
2010-10-04 20:21               ` Jesse Gross
2010-10-15  9:16       ` Guillaume Gaudonville
2010-10-15 21:33         ` Jesse Gross
2010-10-25 13:48           ` Guillaume Gaudonville
2010-10-26  0:40             ` Jesse Gross
2010-10-27  8:32               ` Guillaume Gaudonville

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