"ovs-ofctl del-flows br0" segfaulted because do_flow_mod__() assumed that
it always had a "flow" argument, which is not true for the del-flows
command.
Beyond that, parse_ofp_flow_mod_str() rejected "ovs-ofctl del-flows
br0" because no actions were supplied, even though supplying actions
doesn't make sense for deleting flows.
This commit fixes both problems and adds a simple test that would have
caught both problems.
Bug #4112.
Since the Nicira Extended Match was specified nicira-ext.h has claimed that
arbitrary masks are allowed, but in fact only certain masks were actually
implemented. This commit implements general masking for the 802.1Q VLAN
TCI field.
Originally, wildcards were just the OpenFlow OFPFW_* bits. Then, when
OpenFlow added CIDR masks for IP addresses, struct flow_wildcards was born
with additional members for those masks, derived from the wildcard bits.
Then, when OVS added support for tunnels, we added another bit
NXFW_TUN_ID that coexisted with the OFPFW_*. Later we added even more bits
that do not appear in the OpenFlow 1.0 match structure at all. This had
become really confusing, and the difficulties were especially visible in
the long list of invariants in comments on struct flow_wildcards.
This commit cleanly separates the OpenFlow 1.0 wildcard bits from the
bits used inside Open vSwitch, by defining a new set of bits that are
used only internally to Open vSwitch and converting to and from those
wildcard bits at the point where data comes off or goes onto the wire.
It also moves those functions into ofp-util.[ch] since they are only for
dealing with OpenFlow wire protocol now.
The flow_from_match() and flow_to_match() functions have to deal with most
of the state in a cls_rule anyhow, and this will increase in upcoming
commits, to the point that we might as well just use a cls_rule anyhow.
This commit therefore deletes flow_from_match() and flow_to_match(),
integrating their code into cls_rule_from_match() and the new function
cls_rule_to_match(), respectively. It also changes each of the functions'
callers to use the new cls_rule_*() function.
Our controller group at Nicira has requested a way to annotate flows with
extra information beyond the flow cookie. The new NXAST_NOTE action
provides such a way.
This new action is somewhat controversial. Some have suggested that it
should be added another way (either as part of the Nicira Extended Match
or as a new component of the flow_mod and related messages). Others think
that it has no place in the OpenFlow protocol at all and that an equivalent
should be implemented using the already available features of OVSDB. So
it is possible that this extension will be deleted and the feature will
be reimplemented some other way (or not at all).
CC: Teemu Koponen <koponen@nicira.com>
CC: Jeremy Stribling <strib@nicira.com>
The OpenFlow OFPAT_ENQUEUE action sets a queue id and outputs the packet
in one shot. There are times in which the queue should be set, but the
output port is not yet known. This commit adds the NXAST_SET_QUEUE and
NXAST_POP_QUEUE Nicira extension actions to modify the queue
configuration without requiring a port argument.
CC: Jeremy Stribling <strib@nicira.com>
CC: Keith Amidon <keith@nicira.com>
All of these changes avoid using the same name for two local variables
within a same function. None of them are actual bugs as far as I can tell,
but any of them could be confusing to the casual reader.
The one in lib/ovsdb-idl.c is particularly brilliant: inner and outer
loops both using (different) variables named 'i'.
Found with GCC -Wshadow.
Until now, flows set up by ovs-ofctl and by "ovs-controller --with-flows"
by default expired after 60 seconds of inactivity. This was surprising,
especially in the latter case where one is normally trying to set up
permanent flows. Even in the former case, however, we can't think of a
good reason that flows added by ovs-ofctl should expire by default. So
this commit make flows permanent by default.
Reported-by: Michael Mao <mmao@nicira.com>
An upcoming commit will add the ability to load OpenFlow rules into
ovs-controller. Break out string-to-openflow parsing so that
ovs-ofctl and ovs-controller can use the same code.
