Currently, the openvswitch module is not accepting the correctly formated
netlink message for the TTL decrement action. For both setting and getting
the dec_ttl action, the actions should be nested in the
OVS_DEC_TTL_ATTR_ACTION attribute as mentioned in the openvswitch.h uapi.
When the original patch was sent, it was tested with a private OVS userspace
implementation. This implementation was unfortunately not upstreamed and
reviewed, hence an erroneous version of this patch was sent out.
Leaving the patch as-is would cause problems as the kernel module could
interpret additional attributes as actions and vice-versa, due to the
actions not being encapsulated/nested within the actual attribute, but
being concatinated after it.
Fixes: 744676e777 ("openvswitch: add TTL decrement action")
Signed-off-by: Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/160622121495.27296.888010441924340582.stgit@wsfd-netdev64.ntdv.lab.eng.bos.redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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