[ovs-dev] [PATCH net-next v12 9/9] openvswitch: use ipgre tunnel rather than gretap tunnel

[Pravin Shelar]

On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 6:02 AM, Jiri Benc <jbenc at redhat.com> wrote:
> From: Simon Horman <simon.horman at netronome.com>
>
> This allows GRE tunnels to send and receive both
> layer 2 packets (packets with an ethernet header) and
> layer 3 packets (packets without an ethernet header).
>
> Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman at netronome.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc at redhat.com>
> ---
> v12: removed the non-gre hunks (now part of previous patches in this
>      patchset)
> ---
>  include/net/gre.h           | 4 ++--
>  net/ipv4/ip_gre.c           | 9 +++++----
>  net/openvswitch/vport-gre.c | 2 +-
>  3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/net/gre.h b/include/net/gre.h
> index d25d836c129b..1a0bb1cefa60 100644
> --- a/include/net/gre.h
> +++ b/include/net/gre.h
> @@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ struct gre_protocol {
>  int gre_add_protocol(const struct gre_protocol *proto, u8 version);
>  int gre_del_protocol(const struct gre_protocol *proto, u8 version);
>
> -struct net_device *gretap_fb_dev_create(struct net *net, const char *name,
> -                                      u8 name_assign_type);
> +struct net_device *gre_fb_dev_create(struct net *net, const char *name,
> +                                    u8 name_assign_type);
>  int gre_parse_header(struct sk_buff *skb, struct tnl_ptk_info *tpi,
>                      bool *csum_err, __be16 proto, int nhs);
>
> diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c b/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c
> index 576f705d8180..18caea5c6d09 100644
> --- a/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c
> +++ b/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c
> @@ -1125,8 +1125,8 @@ static int ipgre_fill_info(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct net_device *dev)
>         .get_link_net   = ip_tunnel_get_link_net,
>  };
>
> -struct net_device *gretap_fb_dev_create(struct net *net, const char *name,
> -                                       u8 name_assign_type)
> +struct net_device *gre_fb_dev_create(struct net *net, const char *name,
> +                                    u8 name_assign_type)
>  {
>         struct nlattr *tb[IFLA_MAX + 1];
>         struct net_device *dev;
> @@ -1137,13 +1137,14 @@ struct net_device *gretap_fb_dev_create(struct net *net, const char *name,
>         memset(&tb, 0, sizeof(tb));
>
>         dev = rtnl_create_link(net, name, name_assign_type,
> -                              &ipgre_tap_ops, tb);
> +                              &ipgre_link_ops, tb);
>         if (IS_ERR(dev))
>                 return dev;
>
>         /* Configure flow based GRE device. */
>         t = netdev_priv(dev);
>         t->collect_md = true;
> +       dev->type = ARPHRD_NONE;
>

This is OVS tunnel compatibility code. We are not suppose to add new
features to compat code. Just provide a way to configure such device
over rtnl.