Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH net] net: openvswitch: don't send internal clone attribute to the userspace.

[Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>]

Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org> writes:

> 'OVS_CLONE_ATTR_EXEC' is an internal attribute that is used for
> performance optimization inside the kernel.  It's added by the kernel
> while parsing user-provided actions and should not be sent during the
> flow dump as it's not part of the uAPI.
>
> The issue doesn't cause any significant problems to the ovs-vswitchd
> process, because reported actions are not really used in the
> application lifecycle and only supposed to be shown to a human via
> ovs-dpctl flow dump.  However, the action list is still incorrect
> and causes the following error if the user wants to look at the
> datapath flows:
>
>   # ovs-dpctl add-dp system@ovs-system
>   # ovs-dpctl add-flow "<flow match>" "clone(ct(commit),0)"
>   # ovs-dpctl dump-flows
>   <flow match>, packets:0, bytes:0, used:never,
>     actions:clone(bad length 4, expected -1 for: action0(01 00 00 00),
>                   ct(commit),0)
>
> With the fix:
>
>   # ovs-dpctl dump-flows
>   <flow match>, packets:0, bytes:0, used:never,
>     actions:clone(ct(commit),0)
>
> Additionally fixed an incorrect attribute name in the comment.
>
> Fixes: b233504033db ("openvswitch: kernel datapath clone action")
> Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
> ---

Acked-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>