From: Toshiaki Makita <makita.toshi...@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 14:51:26 +0900

> As Brandon Carpenter reported[1], sending non-vlan-offloaded packets from
> bridge devices ends up with corrupted packets. He narrowed down this problem
> and found that the root cause is in skb_reorder_vlan_header().
> 
> While I was working on fixing this problem, I found that the function does
> not work properly for double tagged packets with reorder_hdr off as well.
> 
> Patch 1 fixes these 2 problems in skb_reorder_vlan_header().
> 
> And it turned out that fixing skb_reorder_vlan_header() is not sufficient
> to receive double tagged packets with reorder_hdr off while I was testing the
> fix. Vlan tags got out of order when vlan devices with reorder_hdr disabled
> were stacked. Patch 2 fixes this problem.
> 
> [1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ethernet-bridging/msg07039.html

Series applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.

I was thinking of pushing back on the addition of the ETH_TLEN UAPI visible
macro, because I don't see any other system providing that define.  But in
the end I decided that it's harmless and really that header file is the
correct location for such a definition.

Thank you.

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