[ovs-dev] Bug#719736: openvswitch: build FTBFS "make check" failures on most archs

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Wed Aug 28 05:17:27 UTC 2013


On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 01:03:14PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 11:24:38AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > A little work with gdb shows that 501 failed due to misaligned data
> > access in a "packet out" OpenFlow command in packet_set_ipv4().  It
> > looks like handle_packet_out() in ofproto.c needs to properly align
> > the L3 header.  It seems likely that the other failures are for the
> > same or related reasons.
> 
> I posted a patch series that resolves these bus errors, starting here:
>         http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2013-August/030770.html
> After it's reviewed, I'll apply it to the Debian package as well.

I applied this series to the Open vSwitch branch for version 1.9.
Before I rebuild the Debian package, I'm going to try to fix the other
category of errors in this bug report.



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