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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: kaber@trash.net
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [NETFILTER]: bridge: fix missing link layer headers on outgoing routed packets
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 09:32:46 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071213.093246.83297959.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47616BC6.9010208@trash.net>

From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:28:38 +0100

> [NETFILTER]: bridge: fix missing link layer headers on outgoing routed packets
> 
> As reported by Damien Thebault, the double POSTROUTING hook invocation
> fix caused outgoing packets routed between two bridges to appear without
> a link-layer header. The reason for this is that we're skipping the
> br_nf_post_routing hook for routed packets now and don't save the
> original link layer header, but nevertheless tries to restore it on
> output, causing corruption.
> 
> The root cause for this is that skb->nf_bridge has no clearly defined
> lifetime and is used to indicate all kind of things, but that is
> quite complicated to fix. For now simply don't touch these packets
> and handle them like packets from any other device.
> 
> Tested-by: Damien Thebault <damien.thebault@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>

Applied to net-2.6, thanks Patrick.

      reply	other threads:[~2007-12-13 17:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-13 17:28 [NETFILTER]: bridge: fix missing link layer headers on outgoing routed packets Patrick McHardy
2007-12-13 17:32 ` David Miller [this message]

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