On Tue, Jul 01, 2014 at 04:58:06PM -0700, Jesse Gross wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 9:20 PM, Simon Horman <ho...@verge.net.au> wrote:
> > This patch loosens the restrictions surrounding push and pop MPLS actions
> > such that they will be allowed after a pop VLAN action if the inner
> > ethernet type is acceptable for pop and push MPLS actions. This implies
> > that there is only one VLAN tag present.
> >
> > Some analysis of logic of this change is as follows:
> >
> >     The purpose of tracking vlan_tci is to allow prohibition of push
> >     and pop MPLS actions in the presence of a VLAN. In this scenario
> >     the VLAN_TAG_PRESENT bit of vlan_tci is set and eth_type is that of
> >     the packet with the outermost VLAN tag removed.
> >
> >     A pop VLAN action may clear vlan_tci as it removes the outermost
> >     VLAN tag and the push and pop MPLS logic may rely on eth_type for
> >     their prohibition logic.
> >
> >     This will not allow push and pop MPLS on packets with multiple VLAN
> >     tags, regardless of if they are all remove using POP VLAN, as there
> >     is no mechanism to expose the inner ethernet type beyond that of
> >     the outermost VLAN tag.
> >
> > Suggested-by: Jesse Gross <jgr...@nicira.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <ho...@verge.net.au>
> 
> Applied, that was nice and simple. I also removed the outdated comment
> above PUSH_MPLS saying that vlan_tci reflects the presence of any vlan
> tag regardless of whether it has been removed.

Thanks, sorry for missing that.
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