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Commit 6de6e46d authored by Yoshiki Komachi's avatar Yoshiki Komachi Committed by David S. Miller
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cls_flower: Fix inability to match GRE/IPIP packets

When a packet of a new flow arrives in openvswitch kernel module, it dissects
the packet and passes the extracted flow key to ovs-vswtichd daemon. If hw-
offload configuration is enabled, the daemon creates a new TC flower entry to
bypass openvswitch kernel module for the flow (TC flower can also offload flows
to NICs but this time that does not matter).

In this processing flow, I found the following issue in cases of GRE/IPIP
packets.

When ovs_flow_key_extract() in openvswitch module parses a packet of a new
GRE (or IPIP) flow received on non-tunneling vports, it extracts information
of the outer IP header for ip_proto/src_ip/dst_ip match keys.

This means ovs-vswitchd creates a TC flower entry with IP protocol/addresses
match keys whose values are those of the outer IP header. OTOH, TC flower,
which uses flow_dissector (different parser from openvswitch module), extracts
information of the inner IP header.

The following flow is an example to describ...
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