[ovs-discuss] Error with ovs-vsctl

[Ben Pfaff]

It's reporting that there's a port that can't be created.

On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 05:06:21PM +0200, sreepriya wrote:
> Once I got the previous error and if I try to add a bridge:
> sudo ovs-vsctl add-br br1
> 
> Then I get the error:
> ovs-vsctl: Error detected while setting up 'br1'. See ovs-vswitchd log for
> details.
> 
> Thanks,
> Priya
> ​
> 
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 4:58 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 04:36:51PM +0200, sreepriya wrote:
> > > I need some help in understanding the following log message better.
> > > I am working on doing some security tests for ovs.
> > > I am getting this error once I tried to add a port with a very long name
> > > (ovs-vsctl add-port) (more than 15 bytes.).
> > > There is similar log if I try to add a switch with a smililar long name.
> > > (ovs-vsctl add-br)
> > > I am also not able to add any further ports to this bridge once this
> > error
> > > is triggered.
> > >
> > > I build the openvswitch locally with CFLAGS="O1". There is no such error
> > if
> > > O1 flag is not used.
> > > https://github.com/spchal/ovs-fuzz/blob/master/ovs-vswitchd.log
> > >
> > > The following link explains how to reproduce it.
> > > https://github.com/spchal/ovs-fuzz/blob/master/add-port
> >
> > What error are you talking about?  The log is hundreds of lines long and
> > I don't see an obvious error there.
> >