This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
act_mirred: do not drop packets when fails to mirror it
to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
act_mirred-do-not-drop-packets-when-fails-to-mirror-it.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Wed May 28 20:24:34 PDT 2014
From: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 20:44:27 +0000
Subject: act_mirred: do not drop packets when fails to mirror it
From: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 16c0b164bd24d44db137693a36b428ba28970c62 ]
We drop packet unconditionally when we fail to mirror it. This is not intended
in some cases. Consdier for kvm guest, we may mirror the traffic of the bridge
to a tap device used by a VM. When kernel fails to mirror the packet in
conditions such as when qemu crashes or stop polling the tap, it's hard for the
management software to detect such condition and clean the the mirroring
before. This would lead all packets to the bridge to be dropped and break the
netowrk of other virtual machines.
To solve the issue, the patch does not drop packets when kernel fails to mirror
it, and only drop the redirected packets.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/sched/act_mirred.c | 11 +++++------
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
--- a/net/sched/act_mirred.c
+++ b/net/sched/act_mirred.c
@@ -201,13 +201,12 @@ static int tcf_mirred(struct sk_buff *sk
out:
if (err) {
m->tcf_qstats.overlimits++;
- /* should we be asking for packet to be dropped?
- * may make sense for redirect case only
- */
- retval = TC_ACT_SHOT;
- } else {
+ if (m->tcfm_eaction != TCA_EGRESS_MIRROR)
+ retval = TC_ACT_SHOT;
+ else
+ retval = m->tcf_action;
+ } else
retval = m->tcf_action;
- }
spin_unlock(&m->tcf_lock);
return retval;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.4/revert-macvlan-fix-checksums-error-when-we-are-in-bridge-mode.patch
queue-3.4/act_mirred-do-not-drop-packets-when-fails-to-mirror-it.patch
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