Re: [net V2] act_mirred: do not drop packets when fails to mirrorit

[David Miller]

From: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 08:11:47 -0400

> On Thu, 2012-08-16 at 14:44 +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
>> 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@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks.
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