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    net: openvswitch: don't send internal clone attribute to the userspace. · 3f2a3050
    Ilya Maximets authored
    'OVS_CLONE_ATTR_EXEC' is an internal attribute that is used for
    performance optimization inside the kernel.  It's added by the kernel
    while parsing user-provided actions and should not be sent during the
    flow dump as it's not part of the uAPI.
    
    The issue doesn't cause any significant problems to the ovs-vswitchd
    process, because reported actions are not really used in the
    application lifecycle and only supposed to be shown to a human via
    ovs-dpctl flow dump.  However, the action list is still incorrect
    and causes the following error if the user wants to look at the
    datapath flows:
    
      # ovs-dpctl add-dp system@ovs-system
      # ovs-dpctl add-flow "<flow match>" "clone(ct(commit),0)"
      # ovs-dpctl dump-flows
      <flow match>, packets:0, bytes:0, used:never,
        actions:clone(bad length 4, expected -1 for: action0(01 00 00 00),
                      ct(commit),0)
    
    With the fix:
    
      # ovs-dpctl dump-flows
      <flow match>, packets:0, bytes:0, used:never,
        actions:clone(ct(commit),0)
    
    Additionally fixed an incorrect attribute name in the comment.
    
    Fixes: b2335040 ("openvswitch: kernel datapath clone action")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIlya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
    Acked-by: default avatarAaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220404104150.2865736-1-i.maximets@ovn.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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