Re: [PATCH v2] net: deliver skbs on inactive slaves to exact matches

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2010 12:30:11 -0700

> Currently, the accelerated receive path for VLAN's will
> drop packets if the real device is an inactive slave and
> is not one of the special pkts tested for in
> skb_bond_should_drop().  This behavior is different then
> the non-accelerated path and for pkts over a bonded vlan.
 ...
> This patch adds a sk_buff flag which is used for tagging
> skbs that would previously been dropped and allows the
> skb to continue to skb_netif_recv().  Here we add
> logic to check for the deliver_no_wcard flag and if it
> is set only deliver to handlers that match exactly.  This
> makes both paths above consistent and gives pkt handlers
> a way to identify skbs that come from inactive slaves.
> Without this patch in some configurations skbs will be
> delivered to handlers with exact matches and in others
> be dropped out right in the vlan path.
 ...
> Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>

I can't figure out a better way to fix this myself so I've
applied your patch, thanks John!