Thanks, I pushed this series to master and am currently looking at
backports.

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 04:07:02PM -0700, Ethan Jackson wrote:
> Looks good, thanks.
> 
> Ethan
> 
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 15:44, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote:
> > This code in xlate_table_action() is supposed to tag flows in tables that
> > have special forms so that changes do not require revalidating every flow.
> > When rule->tag is nonzero, its value can be used, because we know in this
> > case that rule->cr.wc is the same as table->other_table->wc and that thus
> > rule->tag caches the return value of the rule_calculate_tag() expression.
> > When rule->tag is zero (a "catchall" rule) we need to calculate the tag
> > manually because we have no way to cache it in that case.
> >
> > I discovered this bug by running an "hping3" between a couple of VMs plus
> > the following commands on OVS in the middle:
> >
> >    ovs-ofctl del-flows br0
> >    ovs-ofctl add-flow br0 "table=0 actions=learn(table=1, \
> >              idle_timeout=600, NXM_OF_VLAN_TCI[0..11], \
> >              NXM_OF_ETH_DST[]=NXM_OF_ETH_SRC[], \
> >              output:NXM_OF_IN_PORT[], fin_idle_timeout=10), resubmit(,1)"
> >    ovs-ofctl add-flow br0 "table=1 priority=0 actions=flood"
> >
> > Without this patch, flows don't get properly invalidated upon initial MAC
> > learning, so one sees warnings like the following:
> >
> >    in_port(2),eth(src=50:54:00:00:00:05,dst=50:54:00:00:00:07),
> >    eth_type(0x0800),ipv4(src=192.168.0.1,dst=192.168.0.2,proto=6,tos=0,
> >    ttl=64,frag=no),tcp(src=13966,dst=0): inconsistency in subfacet
> >    (actions were: 3,0,1) (correct actions: 1)
> >
> > This patch fixes the problem and thus avoids these warnings.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com>
> > ---
> >  ofproto/ofproto-dpif.c |    2 +-
> >  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/ofproto/ofproto-dpif.c b/ofproto/ofproto-dpif.c
> > index 0ffc4e8..a2021f9 100644
> > --- a/ofproto/ofproto-dpif.c
> > +++ b/ofproto/ofproto-dpif.c
> > @@ -4414,7 +4414,7 @@ xlate_table_action(struct action_xlate_ctx *ctx,
> >         if (table_id > 0 && table_id < N_TABLES) {
> >             struct table_dpif *table = &ofproto->tables[table_id];
> >             if (table->other_table) {
> > -                ctx->tags |= (rule
> > +                ctx->tags |= (rule && rule->tag
> >                               ? rule->tag
> >                               : rule_calculate_tag(&ctx->flow,
> >                                                    &table->other_table->wc,
> > --
> > 1.7.2.5
> >
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