netdev - Re: [RFC net-next 3/4] openvswitch: Add conntrack action.

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Message-ID: <54E0F8DF.1060602@6wind.com>
Date:	Sun, 15 Feb 2015 20:51:59 +0100
From:	Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
To:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>, Joe Stringer <joestringer@...ira.com>
CC:	Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Justin Pettit <jpettit@...ira.com>,
	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
	"dev@...nvswitch.org" <dev@...nvswitch.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC net-next 3/4] openvswitch: Add conntrack action.

Le 15/02/2015 20:13, Thomas Graf a écrit :
> On 02/15/15 at 11:06am, Joe Stringer wrote:
>> On 15 February 2015 at 07:08, Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com> wrote:
>>> Le 15/02/2015 05:47, Joe Stringer a écrit :
>>>> Right, it was more of a general sanity check which is likely unneeded.
>>>> I'm not aware of any particular case that this handles.
>>>
>>> I agree with Thomas. If we fall into this case, it's probably a real bug ;-)
>>
>> We can BUG_ON(), then.
>
> Let's do a WARN() and just error so we keep the kernel running ;-)
Yes. I wonder if there are more generic places to do this kind of check, because
I don't think that this kind of bug will be specific to ovs.

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