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From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen•de>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
Cc: fw@strlen•de, netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] macvlan: fix oops with vlan-on-top and HW_VLAN_CTAG_TX lowerdev
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 12:39:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140103113904.GB28854@breakpoint.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131231.162448.1656983197554902144.davem@davemloft.net>

David Miller <davem@davemloft•net> wrote:
> vlan: Fix header ops passthru when doing TX VLAN offload.
> 
> When the vlan code detects that the real device can do TX VLAN offloads
> in hardware, it tries to arrange for the real device's header_ops to
> be invoked directly.

Sorry for the late reply.

> +static inline int dev_rebuild_header(struct sk_buff *skb)
> +{
> +	const struct net_device *dev = skb->dev;
> +
> +	if (!dev->header_ops || !dev->header_ops->rebuild)
> +		return 0;
> +	return dev->header_ops->rebuild(skb);
> +}
> +
[..]

> +static const struct header_ops vlan_passthru_header_ops = {
> +	.create	 = vlan_passthru_hard_header,
> +	.rebuild = dev_rebuild_header,

Doesn't that result in infinite recursion when invoking
dev_rebuild_header() on skb whose dev->header_ops is
vlan_passthru_header_ops?

  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-03 11:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-28 13:38 [PATCH] macvlan: fix oops with vlan-on-top and HW_VLAN_CTAG_TX lowerdev Florian Westphal
2013-12-29 22:01 ` David Miller
2013-12-30 10:27   ` Florian Westphal
2013-12-31 21:24     ` David Miller
2014-01-03 11:39       ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2014-01-03 20:33         ` David Miller
2014-01-04 13:51           ` Florian Westphal
2014-01-05  1:13             ` David Miller

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