From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 08:22:22 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: bridge: set priority of STP packets
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.34.15~165
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3f59f82650136ab39b7998439750199a747781e5;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Fstable.git

bridge: set priority of STP packets

commit 547b4e718115eea74087e28d7fa70aec619200db upstream.

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 <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
---

diff --git a/net/bridge/br_stp_bpdu.c b/net/bridge/br_stp_bpdu.c
index edc7111b3db80..9fd76244adf6c 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_stp_bpdu.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_stp_bpdu.c
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 #include <linux/etherdevice.h>
 #include <linux/llc.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/pkt_sched.h>
 #include <net/net_namespace.h>
 #include <net/llc.h>
 #include <net/llc_pdu.h>
@@ -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);