[ovs-dev] [PATCH] odp: Fix sample action in userspace

Ben Pfaff blp at ovn.org
Thu Feb 2 18:56:33 UTC 2017


On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 04:00:04PM -0800, Andy Zhou wrote:
> User space implementation of the sample action is not consistent with
> kernel datapath. In kernel datapath, the side effects of actions
> within the sample actions are not visible to the subsequent actions.
> Current user space handling does not follow the same logic. This patch
> makes them consistent.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou <azhou at ovn.org>

Thanks!

This looks like a bug fix, but I suspect that there's no way for
existing code to actually trigger the bug, because I think that OVS at
least up to 2.6 only ever puts actions that do not modify the packet
into a sample action.

Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org>


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