[ovs-dev] [PATCH] ofp-actions: Add hex dump of bad actions to log message on error.

[Ben Pfaff]

This should make debugging easier in such cases.

CC: Natasha Gude <natasha at nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>
---
 lib/ofp-actions.c |   11 +++++++++--
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/ofp-actions.c b/lib/ofp-actions.c
index 2254f53..6b0363a 100644
--- a/lib/ofp-actions.c
+++ b/lib/ofp-actions.c
@@ -450,8 +450,15 @@ ofpacts_from_openflow10(const union ofp_action *in, size_t n_in,
         }
     }
     if (left) {
-        VLOG_WARN_RL(&rl, "bad action format at offset %zu",
-                     (n_in - left) * sizeof *a);
+        if (!VLOG_DROP_WARN(&rl)) {
+            struct ds s;
+
+            ds_init(&s);
+            ds_put_hex_dump(&s, in, n_in * sizeof *in, 0, false);
+            VLOG_WARN("bad action format at offset %#x:\n%s",
+                      (n_in - left) * sizeof *a, ds_cstr(&s));
+            ds_destroy(&s);
+        }
         return OFPERR_OFPBAC_BAD_LEN;
     }
 
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