netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 2/3] openvswitch: remove unreachable code in vlan parsing

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Date:   Wed, 5 Oct 2016 22:22:13 -0700
From:   Pravin Shelar <pshelar@....org>
To:     Jiri Benc <jbenc@...hat.com>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Eric Garver <e@...g.me>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 2/3] openvswitch: remove unreachable code in
 vlan parsing

On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 6:07 AM, Jiri Benc <jbenc@...hat.com> wrote:
> Now when the first vlan tag is always in skb->vlan_tci, drop code that
> assumed it might not be the case.
>
User can turn off TX vlan offload for OVS internal device that would
allow vlan tagged packet with vlan header on the skb-data. This case
will cause issue here.

We could handle this case by not allowing this configuration.

> This patch also removes the wrong likely() statement around
> skb_vlan_tag_present introduced by 018c1dda5ff1 ("openvswitch: 802.1AD Flow
> handling, actions, vlan parsing, netlink attributes"). This code is called
> whenever flow key is being extracted from the packet, the packet may be as
> likely vlan tagged as not.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@...hat.com>