| To: | Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: [PATCH] fix oops when mangling and brouting and tcpdumping packets (revised) |
| From: | "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Wed, 25 Aug 2004 16:51:39 -0700 |
| Cc: | bdschuym@xxxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx, bridge@xxxxxxxx |
| In-reply-to: | <20040825141539.08ca19b8@dell_ss3.pdx.osdl.net> |
| References: | <20040825141539.08ca19b8@dell_ss3.pdx.osdl.net> |
| Sender: | netdev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx |
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 14:15:39 -0700 Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > The ebtables brouting chain, traversed through the call > br_should_route_hook(), can alter a packet. The redirect target > does this, f.e., to change the MAC destination. > > Bart discovered this and proposed a patch; this is a revised version. > This version cleans up the handle_bridge code in net/core/dev.c as well > as getting rid of extra rcu_read_lock and only does the br_port checking > once. Looks good, applied. |
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