[ovs-dev] [PATCH 2/2] ofproto-dpif: Initialize tunnel metadata in both 'flow' and 'base_flow'.
Ben Pfaff
blp at nicira.com
Mon Dec 31 20:58:15 UTC 2012
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 12:48:04PM -0800, Jesse Gross wrote:
> The datapath doesn't carry over tunnel metadata between input and
> output because such an operation doesn't generally make sense. In
> order to keep the flow information in sync, userspace needs to do
> this as well. However, userspace was clearing out only the base
> flow, which means that it later generated an action with the original
> tunnel metadata. If a packet is both being sent and received on a
> tunnel then this will cause the output tunnel's configuration to be
> overriden with incorrect information. This was recently exposed
> when the ability to interpret tunnel metadata was added to userspace.
>
> Reported-by: Anand Krishnamurthy <krishnamurt4 at wisc.edu>
> Reported-by: Saul St. John <sstjohn at cs.wisc.edu>
> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com>
Looks good to me, thanks.
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