On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 12:40:38PM -0700, Jarno Rajahalme wrote:
> Since at the datapath interface we do not have set actions for
> individual fields, but larger sets of fields for a given protocol
> layer, the set action will in practice only ever apply to exactly
> matched flows for the given protocol layer.  For example, if the
> reg_load changes the IP TTL, the corresponding datapath action will
> rewrite also the IP addresses and TOS byte.  Since these other field
> values may not be explicitly set, they depend on the incoming flow field
> values, and are hence all of them are set in the wildcards masks, when
> the action is committed to the datapath.  For the rare case, where the
> reg_load action does not actually change the value, and no other flow
> field values are set (or loaded), the datapath action is skipped, and
> no mask bits are set.  Such a datapath flow should, however, be
> dependent on the specific field value, so the corresponding wildcard
> mask bits must be set, lest the datapath flow be applied to packets
> containing some other value in the field and the field value remain
> unchanged regardless of the incoming value.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <[email protected]>

I applied both of these patches to master, thanks!

Would you mind looking at doing backports to 2.0 and 1.11?  Let me
know what I need to do.
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