From: Jesse Gross <je...@nicira.com> Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 18:07:29 -0700
> 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. Anyways, I've meanwhile queued it up for -stable, thanks. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
