[ovs-dev] [PATCH ovn] ovn-northd: Skip conntrack for MLD packets.

[Dumitru Ceara]

On 9/11/20 11:46 AM, Numan Siddique wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 2:25 PM Dumitru Ceara <dceara at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> We currently skip conntrack for IPv6 Neighbor Discovery packets because
>> conntrack marks all ND packets as invalid [0].
>>
>> The same thing should be done for MLD packets. Otherwise, as soon as an
>> allow-related ACL or load balancer is added, MLD packets will go to
>> conntrack and get dropped because they are marked "invalid".
>>
>> This commit also fixes the MLD test to use a link local IPv6 source
>> address.
>>
>> [0] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11797
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Dumitru Ceara <dceara at redhat.com>
> 
> Thanks Dumitru. I applied this patch to master. Does it need a
> backport to 20.06 ?
> 

Thanks Numan! Yes, this could go down to 20.03 if it's not too much trouble.

Regards,
Dumitru