From: Jesse Gross <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 18:38:28 -0700
> Masks were added to OVS flows in a way that was backwards compatible > with userspace programs that did not generate masks. As a result, it is > possible that we may receive flows that do not have a mask and we need > to synthesize one. > > Generating a mask requires iterating over attributes and descending into > nested attributes. For each level we need to know the size to generate the > correct mask. We do this with a linked table of attribute types. > > Although the logic to handle these nested attributes was there in concept, > there are a number of bugs in practice. Examples include incomplete links > between tables, variable length attributes being treated as nested and > missing sanity checks. > > Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <[email protected]> > --- > v2: Fix whitespace errors. > Add check for unknown bytes in VXLAN extensions. > Factor out check for nested or variable attributes. Applied, thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
