On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 6:35 AM, Eric Garver <e...@erig.me> wrote:
> On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 06:57:46PM -0700, Pravin Shelar wrote:
>> On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 12:59 PM, Eric Garver <e...@erig.me> wrote:
>> > CSMU6_RX is relevant for collect_metadata as well. As such leave it
>> > outside of the dev's IPv4/IPv6 checks.
>> >
>> Can you explain it bit? is this flag used with ipv4 tunnels?
>
> It's used with collect_metadata as both ipv4 and ipv6 sockets will be
> created.
>
> openvswitch recently gained support for creating tunnels with rtnetlink.
> It sets COLLECT_METADATA and CSUM6_RX. After create, it does a get to
> verify the device got created with all the requested configuration. The
> verify was failing due to CSUM6_RX not being returned.
>
> Since ip_tunnel_info_af() defaults to returning AF_INET, we fall into
> the IPv4 case and CSUM6_RX is never returned. Other relevant areas that
> call ip_tunnel_info_af() do so using the info from the skb, not the
> geneve_dev.
>
ok.
I think ip_tunnel_info_af() check is not right. it does not work in
case of collect_metadata.
Better fix would be check for genene->sock4 and genene->sock6 and
build the netlink skb accordingly.
