Subject : [BUG] 2.6.29-rc* QinQ vlan trunking regression Submitter : Bart Trojanowski <bart@jukie.net> Date : 2009-02-28 18:05 References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123584439115868&w=4 This entry is being used for tracking a regression from 2.6.28. Please don't close it until the problem is fixed in the mainline.
Notify-Also : nedtev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
On Saturday 14 March 2009, David Miller wrote: > From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> > Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 20:05:33 +0100 (CET) > > > This message has been generated automatically as a part of a report > > of recent regressions. > > > > The following bug entry is on the current list of known regressions > > from 2.6.28. Please verify if it still should be listed and let me know > > (either way). > > > > > > Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12805 > > Subject : QinQ vlan trunking regression > > Submitter : Bart Trojanowski <bart@jukie.net> > > Date : 2009-02-28 18:05 (15 days old) > > References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123584439115868&w=4 > > Fixed by: > > commit 9d40bbda599def1e1d155d7f7dca14fe8744bd2b > Author: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> > Date: Wed Mar 4 23:46:25 2009 -0800 > > vlan: Fix vlan-in-vlan crashes. > > As analyzed by Patrick McHardy, vlan needs to reset it's > netdev_ops pointer in it's ->init() function but this > leaves the compat method pointers stale. > > Add a netdev_resync_ops() and call it from the vlan code. > > Any other driver which changes ->netdev_ops after register_netdevice() > will need to call this new function after doing so too. > > With help from Patrick McHardy. > > Tested-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> > Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>