[ovs-dev] [PATCH 2/2] datapath: add ct_clear action

[Pravin Shelar]

On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 11:10 AM, Eric Garver <e at erig.me> wrote:
> Upstream commit:
>     commit b8226962b1c49c784aeddb9d2fafbf53dfdc2190
>     Author: Eric Garver <e at erig.me>
>     Date:   Tue Oct 10 16:54:44 2017 -0400
>
>     openvswitch: add ct_clear action
>
>     This adds a ct_clear action for clearing conntrack state. ct_clear is
>     currently implemented in OVS userspace, but is not backed by an action
>     in the kernel datapath. This is useful for flows that may modify a
>     packet tuple after a ct lookup has already occurred.
>
>     Signed-off-by: Eric Garver <e at erig.me>
>     Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar at ovn.org>
>     Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
>
> Notes:
>    - hunk from include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h is missing because it
>      was added with userspace support in 1fe178d251c8 ("dpif: Add support
>      for OVS_ACTION_ATTR_CT_CLEAR")
>    - if IP_CT_UNTRACKED is not available use 0 as other nf_ct_set()
>      calls do. Since we're setting ct to NULL this is okay.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Garver <e at erig.me>

I pushed series to master and branch 2.9.

Thanks.