From 3f59f82650136ab39b7998439750199a747781e5 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 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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker --- 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 edc7111b3db80..9fd76244adf6c 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); -- 2.47.2