linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net] net: openvswitch: don't send internal clone attribute to the userspace.

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Message-Id: <164920801199.3942.3063131772130924818.git-patchwork-notify@kernel.org>
Date:   Wed, 06 Apr 2022 01:20:11 +0000
From:   patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@...nel.org
To:     Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@....org>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, kuba@...nel.org, davem@...emloft.net,
        dev@...nvswitch.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        pabeni@...hat.com, pshelar@....org, azhou@....org,
        pkusunyifeng@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: openvswitch: don't send internal clone attribute to
 the userspace.

Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (master)
by Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>:

On Mon,  4 Apr 2022 12:41:50 +0200 you wrote:
> 'OVS_CLONE_ATTR_EXEC' is an internal attribute that is used for
> performance optimization inside the kernel.  It's added by the kernel
> while parsing user-provided actions and should not be sent during the
> flow dump as it's not part of the uAPI.
> 
> The issue doesn't cause any significant problems to the ovs-vswitchd
> process, because reported actions are not really used in the
> application lifecycle and only supposed to be shown to a human via
> ovs-dpctl flow dump.  However, the action list is still incorrect
> and causes the following error if the user wants to look at the
> datapath flows:
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net] net: openvswitch: don't send internal clone attribute to the userspace.
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/3f2a3050b4a3

You are awesome, thank you!
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