[PATCH net-next 0/2] bonding: use correct ether type for alb

[PATCH net-next 0/2] bonding: use correct ether type for alb

[Veaceslav Falico]

Hi,

There have been reports that, while using the ETH_P_LOOP ether type
(0x0060), the ether type is treated as its packet length.

To avoid that and to not break already existing apps - add new ether type
ETH_P_LOOPBACK that contains the correct id - 0x9000.


CC: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
CC: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
CC: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
CC: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
CC: Neil Jerram <Neil.Jerram@metaswitch.com>
CC: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
CC: Arvid Brodin <Arvid.Brodin@xdin.com>
CC: netdev@vger.kernel.org
CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>

---
 drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.c | 2 +-
 include/uapi/linux/if_ether.h  | 1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] bonding: use correct ether type for alb

[David Miller]

From: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 12:41:56 +0100

> There have been reports that, while using the ETH_P_LOOP ether type
> (0x0060), the ether type is treated as its packet length.
> 
> To avoid that and to not break already existing apps - add new ether type
> ETH_P_LOOPBACK that contains the correct id - 0x9000.

Series applied, thanks Veaceslav.