On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 6:00 PM, David Miller <da...@davemloft.net> wrote: > 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'
Fedora is running into it I believe. Chris Wright asked for it so he might be able to elaborate more on their plans. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
