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From: Stephen Suryaputra <ssuryaextr@gmail.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: gvaradar@cisco.com, benve@cisco.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	govind.varadar@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: handle 802.1P vlan 0 packets properly
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2019 19:08:36 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190610230836.GA3390@ubuntu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190610.142810.138225058759413106.davem@davemloft.net>

On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 02:28:10PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Govindarajulu Varadarajan <gvaradar@cisco.com>
> Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2019 07:27:02 -0700
> 
> > When stack receives pkt: [802.1P vlan 0][802.1AD vlan 100][IPv4],
> > vlan_do_receive() returns false if it does not find vlan_dev. Later
> > __netif_receive_skb_core() fails to find packet type handler for
> > skb->protocol 801.1AD and drops the packet.
> > 
> > 801.1P header with vlan id 0 should be handled as untagged packets.
> > This patch fixes it by checking if vlan_id is 0 and processes next vlan
> > header.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Govindarajulu Varadarajan <gvaradar@cisco.com>
> 
> Under Linux we absolutely do not decapsulate the VLAN protocol unless
> a VLAN device is configured on that interface.

VLAN ID 0 is treated as if the VLAN protocol isn't there. It is used so
that the 802.1 priority bits can be encoded and acted upon.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-10 23:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-10 14:27 [PATCH net] net: handle 802.1P vlan 0 packets properly Govindarajulu Varadarajan
2019-06-10 21:28 ` David Miller
2019-06-10 23:08   ` Stephen Suryaputra [this message]
2019-06-11  0:35     ` Christian Benvenuti (benve)
2019-06-11  1:20       ` David Miller
2019-06-10 23:09   ` Govindarajulu Varadarajan (gvaradar)

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