On 9 February 2017 at 11:22, Jarno Rajahalme <ja...@ovn.org> wrote:
> Stateful network admission policy may allow connections to one
> direction and reject connections initiated in the other direction.
> After policy change it is possible that for a new connection an
> overlapping conntrack entry already exists, where the original
> direction of the existing connection is opposed to the new
> connection's initial packet.
>
> Most importantly, conntrack state relating to the current packet gets
> the "reply" designation based on whether the original direction tuple
> or the reply direction tuple matched.  If this "directionality" is
> wrong w.r.t. to the stateful network admission policy it may happen
> that packets in neither direction are correctly admitted.
>
> This patch adds a new "force commit" option to the OVS conntrack
> action that checks the original direction of an existing conntrack
> entry.  If that direction is opposed to the current packet, the
> existing conntrack entry is deleted and a new one is subsequently
> created in the correct direction.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <ja...@ovn.org>
> Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshe...@ovn.org>

Acked-by: Joe Stringer <j...@ovn.org>

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