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From: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] act_mirred: do not drop packets when fails to mirror it
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 11:10:19 -0400
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On Wed, 2012-08-15 at 21:42 +0800, Jason Wang wrote:

> 
> I met it actually through the following steps:
> 
> - start a kvm guest with tap and make it to be an interface of the bridge
> - mirror the ingress traffic of the bridge to the tap
> - terminate the qemu process, the tap device is then removed
> - all packet goes to bridge would be dropped, so the network of guests 
> in the same bridge would be broken
> 

Makes sense.
Can you please leave the err check braces i.e
        if (err) {
                m->tcf_qstats.overlimits++;
                if (m->tcfm_eaction != TCA_EGRESS_MIRROR)
                        retval = TC_ACT_SHOT;
                else 
                    retval = m->tcf_action;   
        } else {
                retval = m->tcf_action;
        }

Or at least dont use TC_ACT_STOLEN.

cheers,
jamal