On 14 April 2016 at 07:36, sreepriya <sreepriya1...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I need some help in understanding the following log message better.
> I am working on doing some security tests for ovs.
> I am getting this error once I tried to add a port with a very long name
> (ovs-vsctl add-port) (more than 15 bytes.).
>
Linux does not allow to create network devices with names longer than that
and hence the error.



> There is similar log if I try to add a switch with a smililar long name.
> (ovs-vsctl add-br)
> I am also not able to add any further ports to this bridge once this error
> is triggered.
>
> I build the openvswitch locally with CFLAGS="O1". There is no such error
> if O1 flag is not used.
> https://github.com/spchal/ovs-fuzz/blob/master/ovs-vswitchd.log
>
> The following link explains how to reproduce it.
> https://github.com/spchal/ovs-fuzz/blob/master/add-port
>
> ​Thanks,
> --
> Sreepriya
>
> <https://github.com/spchal>
>
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