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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>,
	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, 07 Dec 2010 21:50:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1291755026.5324.3.camel@edumazet-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101207195019.GP13189@kroah.com>

Le mardi 07 décembre 2010 à 11:50 -0800, Greg KH a écrit :
> 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.
> 

Oh well, which version ?

A new version of the patch was submitted 6 days ago .

http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/73791/

Thanks





  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-07 20:50 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 ` [stable] " Greg KH
2010-12-07 20:50   ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2010-12-07 21:03     ` Greg KH

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