[ovs-dev] [PATCH net 1/2] openvswitch: support asymmetric conntrack

[Pravin Shelar]

On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 1:07 PM Aaron Conole <aconole at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> The openvswitch module shares a common conntrack and NAT infrastructure
> exposed via netfilter.  It's possible that a packet needs both SNAT and
> DNAT manipulation, due to e.g. tuple collision.  Netfilter can support
> this because it runs through the NAT table twice - once on ingress and
> again after egress.  The openvswitch module doesn't have such capability.
>
> Like netfilter hook infrastructure, we should run through NAT twice to
> keep the symmetry.
>
> Fixes: 05752523e565 ("openvswitch: Interface with NAT.")
> Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <aconole at redhat.com>

The patch looks ok. But I am not able apply it. can you fix the encoding.