From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] bridge: set priority of STP packets
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 10:22:22 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130211102222.37743b22@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> (raw)
Spanning Tree Protocol packets should have always been marked as
control packets, this causes them to get queued in the high prirority
FIFO. As Radia Perlman mentioned in her LCA talk, STP dies if bridge
gets overloaded and can't communicate. This is a long-standing bug back
to the first versions of Linux bridge.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
---
Please consider adding to stable as well.
--- a/net/bridge/br_stp_bpdu.c 2013-01-16 09:47:00.599539375 -0800
+++ b/net/bridge/br_stp_bpdu.c 2013-02-11 08:13:56.315979316 -0800
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
#include <linux/etherdevice.h>
#include <linux/llc.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/pkt_sched.h>
#include <net/net_namespace.h>
#include <net/llc.h>
#include <net/llc_pdu.h>
@@ -40,6 +41,7 @@ static void br_send_bpdu(struct net_brid
skb->dev = p->dev;
skb->protocol = htons(ETH_P_802_2);
+ skb->priority = TC_PRIO_CONTROL;
skb_reserve(skb, LLC_RESERVE);
memcpy(__skb_put(skb, length), data, length);
next reply other threads:[~2013-02-11 18:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-11 18:22 Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2013-02-11 19:18 ` [PATCH] bridge: set priority of STP packets David Miller
2013-02-11 22:55 ` Eric Dumazet
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