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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