linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv3 net-next 01/10] openvswitch: Serialize acts with original netlink len

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Message-ID: <CALnjE+q1kHpEcYvYyh82G+E74zON13521ji0A4pVZ8eVfaBwpA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 12 Aug 2015 14:34:45 -0700
From:	Pravin Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com>
To:	Joe Stringer <joestringer@...ira.com>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, pablo <pablo@...filter.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	Justin Pettit <jpettit@...ira.com>,
	Andy Zhou <azhou@...ira.com>, Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>,
	Florian Westphal <fwestpha@...hat.com>,
	Hannes Sowa <hannes@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...ronetworks.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 net-next 01/10] openvswitch: Serialize acts with
 original netlink len

On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 3:59 PM, Joe Stringer <joestringer@...ira.com> wrote:
> Previously, we used the kernel-internal netlink actions length to
> calculate the size of messages to serialize back to userspace.
> However,the sw_flow_actions may not be formatted exactly the same as the
> actions on the wire, so store the original actions length when
> de-serializing and re-use the original length when serializing.
>
> Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joestringer@...ira.com>

Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com>
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