3.0-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 547b4e718115eea74087e28d7fa70aec619200db ] Spanning Tree Protocol packets should have always been marked as control packets, this causes them to get queued in the high prirority FIFO. As Radia Perlman mentioned in her LCA talk, STP dies if bridge gets overloaded and can't communicate. This is a long-standing bug back to the first versions of Linux bridge. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/bridge/br_stp_bpdu.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/net/bridge/br_stp_bpdu.c +++ b/net/bridge/br_stp_bpdu.c @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ #include <linux/etherdevice.h> #include <linux/llc.h> #include <linux/slab.h> +#include <linux/pkt_sched.h> #include <net/net_namespace.h> #include <net/llc.h> #include <net/llc_pdu.h> @@ -40,6 +41,7 @@ static void br_send_bpdu(struct net_brid skb->dev = p->dev; skb->protocol = htons(ETH_P_802_2); + skb->priority = TC_PRIO_CONTROL; skb_reserve(skb, LLC_RESERVE); memcpy(__skb_put(skb, length), data, length); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html