It is not unusual to have the bridge port down. Sometimes
it has the old MTU, which is fine since it's not being used.
However, the kernel spams the log with a warning message
when a packet is going to be sent over such port. Fix that
by warning only if the interface is UP.
Signed-off-by: Flavio Leitner <f...@sysclose.org>
---
net/openvswitch/vport.c | 8 +++++---
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/openvswitch/vport.c b/net/openvswitch/vport.c
index 4ed7e52c7012..88deb5b41429 100644
--- a/net/openvswitch/vport.c
+++ b/net/openvswitch/vport.c
@@ -497,10 +497,12 @@ void ovs_vport_send(struct vport *vport, struct sk_buff
*skb, u8 mac_proto)
if (unlikely(packet_length(skb, vport->dev) > mtu &&
!skb_is_gso(skb))) {
- net_warn_ratelimited("%s: dropped over-mtu packet: %d > %d\n",
- vport->dev->name,
- packet_length(skb, vport->dev), mtu);
vport->dev->stats.tx_errors++;
+ if (vport->dev->flags & IFF_UP)
+ net_warn_ratelimited("%s: dropped over-mtu packet: "
+ "%d > %d\n", vport->dev->name,
+ packet_length(skb, vport->dev),
+ mtu);
goto drop;
}
--
2.29.2
