[ovs-dev] [PATCH] Fix issue with "strict" deletion of flows

Jesse Gross jesse at nicira.com
Thu May 6 21:36:38 UTC 2010


On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Justin Pettit <jpettit at nicira.com> wrote:

> OpenFlow provides the ability to delete flows that match a "strict"
> description.  This means that wildcards are not active, and thus will
> only match a single flow that exactly matches the description.  The code
> that checks for a match is pretty dumb and still compares the values of
> fields that are wildcarded.  A recent change added a "tun_id" matching
> field, but did not zero out the field when it was supposed to be
> ignored, which broke the matching used by strict deletions.  This sets
> the field regardless of whether the field is wildcarded or not.
>

Looks good - it's not really that great to have uninitialized fields in
there anyways, independent of this problem.
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