From: Jesse Gross <je...@nicira.com> Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 17:57:39 -0700
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Jesse Gross <je...@nicira.com> wrote: >> It's possible that packets that are sent on internal devices (from >> the OVS perspective) have already traversed the local IP stack. >> After they go through the internal device, they will again travel >> through the IP stack which may get confused by the presence of >> existing information in the skb. The problem can be observed >> when switching between namespaces. This clears out that information >> to avoid problems but deliberately leaves other metadata alone. >> This is to provide maximum flexibility in chaining together OVS >> and other Linux components. >> >> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <je...@nicira.com> > > It was recently discovered that the bug that this patch fixes is > causing problems in the real world. Can you please queue this for > stable in 3.4/3.5? It's currently in Linus's tree as > 7fe99e2d434eafeac0c57b279a77e5de39212636. > What vendor is shipping openvswitch enabled and requires the fix to be in -stable before they'll ship it to customers? That goes into what is 'real world' _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
