[ovs-dev] [PATCH] Fix openvswitch: netlink: Key attribute has unexpected length (type=62, length=4, expected=0) messages.

Madhu Challa challa at noironetworks.com
Thu May 29 00:23:10 UTC 2014


Oh ok. So I should not see this error once the mpls probe functionality is
implemented in the kernel. Is my understanding correct ? Right now we
always come out of the loop in check_max_mpls_depth() for n = 0.

Thanks.


On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 5:08 PM, Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com> wrote:

> On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Madhu Challa <challa at noironetworks.com>
> wrote:
> > These come from dpif_flow_put() in check_max_mpls_depth() when adding a
> > datapath. The key length is variable depending on number of MPLS labels.
> By
> > initializing to -1 kmod will not check for the key length.
> > Signed-off-by: Madhu Challa <challa at noironetworks.com>
>
> Right but the purpose of this operation is to determine the number
> labels that the kernel supports. Silently allowing all values is not
> particularly useful.
>
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