netdev - Re: [PATCHv2 net 3/3] openvswitch: Serialize nested ct actions if provided

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Date:	Fri, 16 Oct 2015 12:03:29 -0700
From:	Pravin Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com>
To:	Joe Stringer <joestringer@...ira.com>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 net 3/3] openvswitch: Serialize nested ct actions if provided

On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 11:08 AM, Joe Stringer <joestringer@...ira.com> wrote:
> If userspace provides a ct action with no nested mark or label, then the
> storage for these fields is zeroed. Later when actions are requested,
> such zeroed fields are serialized even though userspace didn't
> originally specify them. Fix the behaviour by ensuring that no action is
> serialized in this case, and reject actions where userspace attempts to
> set these fields with mask=0. This should make netlink marshalling
> consistent across deserialization/reserialization.
>
> Reported-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme@...ira.com>
> Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joestringer@...ira.com>

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