Re: [RFC PATCH] net/core: fix skb handling on netif serves for both bridge and vlan

On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 18:55 +0800, Xiaotian Feng wrote:

Consider network topology as follows:

eth0  eth1
 |_____|
    |
  bond0 --- br0
    |
  vlan0 --- br1

bond0 serves for both br0 and vlan0, if a vlan tagged packet was sent
to br1 through bond0, bridge handling code is seeing the packet on bond0
and handing it off to my "legacy" bridge before vlan_tx_tag_present
and vlan_hwaccel_do_receive even haven't a chance to look at it.

[...]

This used to work if the underlying device (bond0 in your example)
implemented VLAN tag extraction, because the VLAN group would be checked
before the bridge.  But it never worked for devices without VLAN tag
extraction.  Perhaps we should just prevent this configuration.

Ben.

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