On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 08:49:15PM +0000, Darrell Ball wrote:
> Thanks for doing this; I have debugged the associated kinds of problems and 
> the new more granular errors for mask and action will help.
> 
> I did not test it yet, but I have one comment inline.

Thanks for the comments and the positive words!

> On 1/10/18, 8:35 AM, "[email protected] on behalf of Ben Pfaff" 
> <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote:
> 
>     I spent way too much time this last week tracking down errors due to a
>     VM with an antique kernel module that didn't support connection tracking.
>     This commit adds clear error messages that would have made the problem
>     obvious.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <[email protected]>
>     diff --git a/ofproto/ofproto-dpif.c b/ofproto/ofproto-dpif.c
>     index 838a8de0c27f..da0c64671880 100644
>     --- a/ofproto/ofproto-dpif.c
>     +++ b/ofproto/ofproto-dpif.c
>     @@ -4193,12 +4193,16 @@ check_mask(struct ofproto_dpif *ofproto, const 
> struct miniflow *flow)
>          support = &ofproto->backer->rt_support.odp;
>          ct_state = MINIFLOW_GET_U8(flow, ct_state);
>      
>     +    if (ct_state & CS_UNSUPPORTED_MASK) {
>     +        return OFPERR_OFPBMC_BAD_MASK;
>     +    }
>     +
> 
> [Darrell] Why do we still use OFPERR_OFPBMC_BAD_MASK above, rather
> than the new OFPERR_NXBMC_CT_DATAPATH_SUPPORT ?

That's because this test is different from the others.  Rather than
checking for a feature that is not supported in the datapath, it checks
whether the controller is trying to use a feature that has never been
defined and OVS doesn't know about.  This might be caused, for example,
by a controller trying to use a connection tracking feature that only
exists in a newer version of OVS than the one running.

I guess we could invent another error code, something like
OFPBMC_UNKNOWN_CT_FEATURE, if we think that this is a likely problem.
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