From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 08:22:22 +0000 (+0000) Subject: bridge: set priority of STP packets X-Git-Tag: v3.8~10^2~10 X-Git-Url: https://www.infradead.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=547b4e718115eea74087e28d7fa70aec619200db;p=users%2Fhch%2Fmisc.git bridge: set priority of STP packets 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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- diff --git a/net/bridge/br_stp_bpdu.c b/net/bridge/br_stp_bpdu.c index 7f884e3fb955..8660ea3be705 100644 --- a/net/bridge/br_stp_bpdu.c +++ b/net/bridge/br_stp_bpdu.c @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include #include #include @@ -40,6 +41,7 @@ static void br_send_bpdu(struct net_bridge_port *p, 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);