Re: [PATCH] act_mirred: do not drop packets when fails to mirror it
From: Jamal Hadi Salim
Date: Wed Aug 15 2012 - 11:10:17 EST
On Wed, 2012-08-15 at 21:42 +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
>
> I met it actually through the following steps:
>
> - start a kvm guest with tap and make it to be an interface of the bridge
> - mirror the ingress traffic of the bridge to the tap
> - terminate the qemu process, the tap device is then removed
> - all packet goes to bridge would be dropped, so the network of guests
> in the same bridge would be broken
>
Makes sense.
Can you please leave the err check braces i.e
if (err) {
m->tcf_qstats.overlimits++;
if (m->tcfm_eaction != TCA_EGRESS_MIRROR)
retval = TC_ACT_SHOT;
else
retval = m->tcf_action;
} else {
retval = m->tcf_action;
}
Or at least dont use TC_ACT_STOLEN.
cheers,
jamal
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