[PATCH] macvlan/macvtap: Fix unicast between macvtap interfaces in bridge mode

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From: David Ward <hidden>
Date: 2011-09-18 23:22:36
Subsystem: networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

Packets should always be forwarded to the lowerdev using dev_forward_skb.
vlan->forward is for packets being forwarded directly to another macvlan/
macvtap device (used for multicast in bridge mode).

Reported-and-tested-by: Shlomo Pongratz <redacted>
Signed-off-by: David Ward <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/macvlan.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/macvlan.c b/drivers/net/macvlan.c
index 05172c3..376e3e9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/macvlan.c
+++ b/drivers/net/macvlan.c
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ static int macvlan_queue_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
 		dest = macvlan_hash_lookup(port, eth->h_dest);
 		if (dest && dest->mode == MACVLAN_MODE_BRIDGE) {
 			/* send to lowerdev first for its network taps */
-			vlan->forward(vlan->lowerdev, skb);
+			dev_forward_skb(vlan->lowerdev, skb);
 
 			return NET_XMIT_SUCCESS;
 		}
-- 
1.7.4.1
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