[ovs-dev] [PATCH v2.57] datapath: Add basic MPLS support to kernel

[Jesse Gross]

On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 3:48 AM, Simon Horman <horms at verge.net.au> wrote:
> On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 06:34:05PM -0700, Jesse Gross wrote:
>> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 4:07 PM, Simon Horman <horms at verge.net.au> wrote:
>> > diff --git a/datapath/actions.c b/datapath/actions.c
>> > index 603c7cb..7c3ae0c 100644
>> > --- a/datapath/actions.c
>> > +++ b/datapath/actions.c
>> When we set the EtherType at the bottom of the function, I don't think
>> that it is correct in the presence of VLAN tags because it will set
>> the outer EtherType.
>
> I believe this comes back to the problem we have with tag ordering. A
> problem which after the most recent discussion of this topic I planned to
> kick into the long grass by only allowing push MPLS actions on packets with
> a well defined tag order.

Right, I subconsciously keep forgetting this even though I know it's there.

> This is the purpose of the white list in ovs_nla_copy_actions__().  It is
> supposed to only push MPLS actions for flows with an IPv4, IPv6, ARP, RARP
> or MPLS ethtype.  However, I now think that the white list likely does not
> work for VLAN packets as their flow's ethtype will be the inner-ethtype
> (the one inside the VLAN tag) rather than a VLAN ethtype.
>
> I'm unsure how you would like to handle this but one possibility would be
> simply for push_mpls() to return an error if it is called on an skb with a
> VLAN tag present or if the ethtype doesn't match a white list. Another is
> to set the inner ethtype.

Can't we just look at/track flow->tci to see if there is a vlan?