netdev - Re: [PATCH net] openvswitch: Reset key metadata for packet execution.

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Date:	Wed, 11 Feb 2015 14:57:14 -0800
From:	Pravin Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] openvswitch: Reset key metadata for packet execution.

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 2:40 PM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> From: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com>
> Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 13:35:16 -0800
>
>> Userspace packet execute command pass down flow key for given
>> packet. But userspace can skip some parameter with zero value.
>> Therefore kernel needs to initialize key metadata to zero.
>>
>> Fixes: 0714812134 ("openvswitch: Eliminate memset() from flow_extract.")
>> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com>
>
> Applied, but...
>
>> +     memset(key, 0, OVS_SW_FLOW_KEY_METADATA_SIZE);
>
> There's a space before the TAB in that indentation, and git even
> warns about this when applying patches.
>
> I fixed it up, but this is one of the basic things you should be
> dealing with before submitting your changes.
>

Thanks for fixing the patch.
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