From 6e95f970d1cb6801b5f26d2c167fb1e0ad6c5dba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 08:22:22 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] bridge: set priority of STP packets [ 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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- net/bridge/br_stp_bpdu.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/bridge/br_stp_bpdu.c b/net/bridge/br_stp_bpdu.c index e16aade51ae0..718cbe8ad42b 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); -- 2.39.5