Re: 802.1q tagging broken when used with bridging in 2.6.38

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Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 06:54:58PM CEST, andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 1:54 PM, igor serebryany <igor47@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> it appears that 802.1q tagging is broken in 2.6.38 when combined with bridging.
>> here is how to reproduce the problem:
>>
>> i set up an interface for the machine running 2.6.38 on my cisco router, and
>> assign a subnet to that interface. i am using ping from the router to do the
>> testing. i am getting all the data here with 'tcpdump -e -n' from the machine.
>>
>> i ping the machine from the router, and i see properly-tagged ARP requests
>> coming in on eth0:
>>
>> 12:12:05.052465 00:11:20:dd:81:00 > ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, ethertype 802.1Q
>> (0x8100), length 64: vlan 234, p 0, ethertype ARP, Request who-has 10.0.0.206
>> tell 10.0.0.205, length 46
>>
>> i then create a vlan interface on the machine:
>>
>> vconfig add eth0 234
>> ifconfig eth0.234 up
>>
>> i tcpdump the newly-created interface, and i see the arp packets appearing on
>> it, now properly untagged
>>
>> 12:14:33.549939 00:11:20:dd:81:00 > ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, ethertype ARP (0x0806),
>> length 60: Request who-has 10.0.0.206 tell 10.0.0.205, length 46
>>
>> if i assign an ip to this interface, i can see pings being exchanged on eth0.234
>>
>> 12:17:12.681079 00:11:20:dd:81:00 > ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, ethertype ARP (0x0806),
>> length 60: Request who-has 10.0.0.206 tell 10.0.0.205, length 46
>> 12:17:12.681090 00:30:48:fd:98:d8 > 00:11:20:dd:81:00, ethertype ARP (0x0806),
>> length 42: Reply 10.0.0.206 is-at 00:30:48:fd:98:d8, length 28
>> 12:17:14.682076 00:11:20:dd:81:00 > 00:30:48:fd:98:d8, ethertype IPv4 (0x0800),
>> length 114: 10.0.0.205 > 10.0.0.206: ICMP echo request, id 24, seq 1, length 80
>> 12:17:14.682088 00:30:48:fd:98:d8 > 00:11:20:dd:81:00, ethertype IPv4 (0x0800),
>> length 114: 10.0.0.206 > 10.0.0.205: ICMP echo reply, id 24, seq 1, length 80
>>
>> now, i want to assign eth0 to a bridge
>>
>> brctl addbr xenbr0
>> ifconfig xenbr0 up
>> brctl addif xenbr0 eth0
>>
>> i now attempt to ping the machine again. watching tcpdump on eth0.234, i don't
>> see any of my packets anymore!
>>
>> instead, if i watch xenbr0 with tcpdump, i can see the tagged packets being
>> dumped straight into xenbr0, without the vlan tags stripped out!

Yep, that seems expected. rx_handler for bridge is earlier in rx path
than vlan processing. This is was not changed in 2.6.38. This is with us
for a long time. I plan to refuse this topo in future (not sure yet
thought)

>>
>> 12:20:53.041487 00:11:20:dd:81:00 > 00:30:48:fd:98:d8, ethertype 802.1Q
>> (0x8100), length 118: vlan 234, p 0, ethertype IPv4, 10.0.0.205 > 10.0.0.206:
>> ICMP echo request, id 26, seq 2, length 80
>>
>> obviously there are no icmp replies because there is no listening interface on
>> xenbr0.
>>
>> i tried doing something really silly:
>>
>> vconfig add xenbr0 234
>> ifconfig xenbr0.234 10.0.0.206 netmask 255.255.255.252
>>
>> when watching this unusual interface with tcpdump, i would see properly-untagged
>> packets making their way there. but arp requests couldn't make their way back
>> out again:
>>
>> 12:44:29.952443 00:11:20:dd:81:00 > 00:30:48:fd:98:d8, ethertype IPv4 (0x0800),
>> length 114: 10.0.0.205 > 10.0.0.206: ICMP echo request, id 30, seq 4, length 80
>> 12:44:29.954549 00:30:48:fd:98:d8 > ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, ethertype ARP (0x0806),
>> length 42: Request who-has 10.0.0.205 tell 184.154.127.206, length 28
>>
>> so, that doesn't work...
>>
>> this is a pretty severe bug for me. my virtual machine setup depends on being
>> able to assign VMs to vlans and forward packets to them, and this totally breaks
>> my networking model, taking some of my vms offline. of course, any vm using the
>> native vlan on the port is unaffected.
>>
>
>This is probably something Jiri (cc'd) should know about as it sounds
>like it might be related to some of the VLAN changes he has made in
>the receive path.

No sure to which changes you are referring to. Vlan rx changes are
scheduled in my head for after merge window.

Jirka
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