Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] fix bonding: allow arp_ip_targets on separate vlans to use arp validation

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:37:58 +0100

> Le 07/01/2010 00:53, Jay Vosburgh a écrit :
>> Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> This patch fixes up a problem with found with commit
>>> 1f3c8804acba841b5573b953f5560d2683d2db0d.  The original change
>>> overloaded null_or_orig, but doing that prevented any packet handlers
>>> that were not tied to a specific device (i.e. ptype->dev == NULL) from
>>> ever receiving any frames.
>>>
>>> The null_or_orig variable cannot be overloaded, and must be kept as NULL
>>> to prevent the frame from being ignored by packet handlers designed to
>>> accept frames on any interface.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
>> 
>> 	Tested, and it appears to work fine.  Tcpdump also appears to
>> behave rationally.
>> 
>> 	-J
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
> 
> Tested as well on my machine, I confirm this fixes the problem I had.
> 
> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>

Thanks I'll add this to net-next-2.6 to fix the problem.