[ovs-dev] [PATCH v2 04/24] datapath: Print error when ovs_execute_actions() fails

Greg Rose gvrose8192 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 9 19:20:01 UTC 2020


From: Yifeng Sun <pkusunyifeng at gmail.com>

Upstream commit:
    commit aa733660dbd8d9192b8c528ae0f4b84f3fef74e4
    Author: Yifeng Sun <pkusunyifeng at gmail.com>
    Date:   Sun Aug 4 19:56:11 2019 -0700

    openvswitch: Print error when ovs_execute_actions() fails

    Currently in function ovs_dp_process_packet(), return values of
    ovs_execute_actions() are silently discarded. This patch prints out
    an debug message when error happens so as to provide helpful hints
    for debugging.
    Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar at ovn.org>

    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>

Cc: Yifeng Sun <pkusunyifeng at gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Yifeng Sun <pkusunyifeng at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gvrose8192 at gmail.com>
---
 datapath/datapath.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/datapath/datapath.c b/datapath/datapath.c
index 2879f24ef..c8c21d774 100644
--- a/datapath/datapath.c
+++ b/datapath/datapath.c
@@ -240,6 +240,7 @@ void ovs_dp_process_packet(struct sk_buff *skb, struct sw_flow_key *key)
 	struct dp_stats_percpu *stats;
 	u64 *stats_counter;
 	u32 n_mask_hit;
+	int error;
 
 	stats = this_cpu_ptr(dp->stats_percpu);
 
@@ -248,7 +249,6 @@ void ovs_dp_process_packet(struct sk_buff *skb, struct sw_flow_key *key)
 					 &n_mask_hit);
 	if (unlikely(!flow)) {
 		struct dp_upcall_info upcall;
-		int error;
 
 		memset(&upcall, 0, sizeof(upcall));
 		upcall.cmd = OVS_PACKET_CMD_MISS;
@@ -265,7 +265,10 @@ void ovs_dp_process_packet(struct sk_buff *skb, struct sw_flow_key *key)
 
 	ovs_flow_stats_update(flow, key->tp.flags, skb);
 	sf_acts = rcu_dereference(flow->sf_acts);
-	ovs_execute_actions(dp, skb, sf_acts, key);
+	error = ovs_execute_actions(dp, skb, sf_acts, key);
+	if (unlikely(error))
+		net_dbg_ratelimited("ovs: action execution error on datapath %s: %d\n",
+							ovs_dp_name(dp), error);
 
 	stats_counter = &stats->n_hit;
 
-- 
2.17.1



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