Correction.

The ICMP mask will have to be fully masked in this example. But they still
need to be present in the netlink. A missing ICMP mask attribute will be
interpreted by the user space programs as exact match.





On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Andy Zhou <az...@nicira.com> wrote:

> Yes,  you are right about the root cause.
>
> A fully wildcarded ip proto in the key would prevent the mask of ICMP (may
> not be fully wildcarded) to be generated.
> This patch fixes it.
>
> Andy
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 9:27 AM, Jesse Gross <je...@nicira.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 11:38 PM, Andy Zhou <az...@nicira.com> wrote:
>> > Fix a bug where some mask attributes are missing in the netlink packets
>> > from kernel to the user space.
>> >
>> > Reported-by: Justin Pettit <jpet...@nicira.com>
>> > Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou <az...@nicira.com>
>>
>> Can you describe this some more? Presumably, this is because some of
>> the prerequisite values are either fully or partially masked out and
>> this is preventing latter masks from being emitted. However, since we
>> force prerequisites to be exact match, doesn't that mean the omitted
>> masks are fully wildcarded?
>>
>
>
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