[ovs-dev] [PATCH] datapath: backport: vxlan: correctly handle ipv6.disable module parameter

Pravin Shelar pshelar at ovn.org
Thu May 4 02:08:03 UTC 2017


On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 11:10 AM, Joe Stringer <joe at ovn.org> wrote:
> On 2 May 2017 at 16:08, Pravin B Shelar <pshelar at ovn.org> wrote:
>> From: Jiri Benc <jbenc at redhat.com>
>>
>> upstream commit:
>>     commit d074bf9600443403aa24fbc12c1f18eadc90f5aa
>>     Author: Jiri Benc <jbenc at redhat.com>
>>     Date:   Thu Apr 27 21:24:35 2017 +0200
>>
>>     vxlan: correctly handle ipv6.disable module parameter
>>
>>     When IPv6 is compiled but disabled at runtime, __vxlan_sock_add returns
>>     -EAFNOSUPPORT. For metadata based tunnels, this causes failure of the whole
>>     operation of bringing up the tunnel.
>>
>>     Ignore failure of IPv6 socket creation for metadata based tunnels caused by
>>     IPv6 not being available.
>>
>>     Fixes: b1be00a6c39f ("vxlan: support both IPv4 and IPv6 sockets in a single vxlan device")
>>     Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc at redhat.com>
>>     Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar at ovn.org>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Acked-by: Joe Stringer <joe at ovn.org>

Thanks. I pushed patch to master and branch 2.6 and 2.7.
I have also sent out second patch from same upstream patch series to
keep error msg consistent with upstream vxlan module.


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