From aa1bada15c8ce41ea5b3b9392a85e6e2e07849ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 08:22:22 +0000
Subject: bridge: set priority of STP packets

[ Upstream commit 547b4e718115eea74087e28d7fa70aec619200db ]

Spanning Tree Protocol packets should have always been marked as
control packets, this causes them to get queued in the high prirority
FIFO. As Radia Perlman mentioned in her LCA talk, STP dies if bridge
gets overloaded and can't communicate. This is a long-standing bug back
to the first versions of Linux bridge.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 net/bridge/br_stp_bpdu.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

(limited to 'net/bridge')

diff --git a/net/bridge/br_stp_bpdu.c b/net/bridge/br_stp_bpdu.c
index 289646e..f26516a 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_stp_bpdu.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_stp_bpdu.c
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 #include <linux/etherdevice.h>
 #include <linux/llc.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/pkt_sched.h>
 #include <net/net_namespace.h>
 #include <net/llc.h>
 #include <net/llc_pdu.h>
@@ -40,6 +41,7 @@ static void br_send_bpdu(struct net_bridge_port *p,
 
 	skb->dev = p->dev;
 	skb->protocol = htons(ETH_P_802_2);
+	skb->priority = TC_PRIO_CONTROL;
 
 	skb_reserve(skb, LLC_RESERVE);
 	memcpy(__skb_put(skb, length), data, length);
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