act_mirred: do not drop packets when fails to mirror it
authorJason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Wed, 15 Aug 2012 20:44:27 +0000 (20:44 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 7 Jun 2014 23:02:00 +0000 (16:02 -0700)
commit7c8a60a9e3cdfcc04bc4de488876c07225fa0347
tree2e41952fd15c13213e721a2c139e80432f35639d
parentdfe37ad5ddd74bfb299bb50b62db2f5c6b0bc78a
act_mirred: do not drop packets when fails to mirror it

[ Upstream commit 16c0b164bd24d44db137693a36b428ba28970c62 ]

We drop packet unconditionally when we fail to mirror it. This is not intended
in some cases. Consdier for kvm guest, we may mirror the traffic of the bridge
to a tap device used by a VM. When kernel fails to mirror the packet in
conditions such as when qemu crashes or stop polling the tap, it's hard for the
management software to detect such condition and clean the the mirroring
before. This would lead all packets to the bridge to be dropped and break the
netowrk of other virtual machines.

To solve the issue, the patch does not drop packets when kernel fails to mirror
it, and only drop the redirected packets.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/sched/act_mirred.c