From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Diddi Oscarsson <diddi@diddi.se>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: VLAN over GRE segfault
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 09:26:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1300436792.2888.0.camel@edumazet-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D830AF9.8040007@diddi.se>
Le vendredi 18 mars 2011 à 08:34 +0100, Diddi Oscarsson a écrit :
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> Hello!
>
> I was trying to get ethernet over GRE to work when I found an obvious
> way NOT to do it.
> Basically I created a VLAN interface from the GRE interface (even
> though I had my fair doubts it would work) which gave me a nice segfault.
> The problem with this is that after the segfault, new network
> connections cannot be made (ping, ssh, http, whatever) and a reboot of
> the computer is necessary.
> I think an error message needs to be added when trying an operation
> like this.
Hmm, thanks for the report, I'll submit a patch to fix this
(NETIF_F_VLAN_CHALLENGED needed on some devices)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-18 8:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-18 7:34 VLAN over GRE segfault Diddi Oscarsson
2011-03-18 8:26 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2011-03-18 10:27 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-03-18 19:28 ` Herbert Xu
2011-03-18 22:16 ` David Miller
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