If the vlan is down, free the packet instead of proceeding with other processing, or counting it as received. If vlan interfaces are used as slaves for bonding, with arp monitoring for connectivity, if the rx counter is seen to be incrementing, then the bond device will not observe that the interface is down.
CC: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Vishakha Narvekar <vishakha.narve...@dell.com> --- I don't know if this is the appropriate change, or if it is supposed to work as before. This change seemed to fix the behavior for bonding. net/8021q/vlan_core.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/8021q/vlan_core.c b/net/8021q/vlan_core.c index e2ed698..0bc31de 100644 --- a/net/8021q/vlan_core.c +++ b/net/8021q/vlan_core.c @@ -21,6 +21,12 @@ bool vlan_do_receive(struct sk_buff **skbp) if (unlikely(!skb)) return false; + if (unlikely(!(vlan_dev->flags & IFF_UP))) { + kfree_skb(skb); + *skbp = NULL; + return false; + } + skb->dev = vlan_dev; if (unlikely(skb->pkt_type == PACKET_OTHERHOST)) { /* Our lower layer thinks this is not local, let's make sure. -- 1.8.3.1