From 547b4e718115eea74087e28d7fa70aec619200db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 08:22:22 +0000 Subject: 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 --- net/bridge/br_stp_bpdu.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'net/bridge') diff --git a/net/bridge/br_stp_bpdu.c b/net/bridge/br_stp_bpdu.c index 7f884e3fb95..8660ea3be70 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); -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258