Re: [PATCH net 1/2] openvswitch: support asymmetric conntrack

[Aaron Conole]

Aaron Conole <aconole@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Pravin Shelar <pshelar@xxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 1:07 PM Aaron Conole <aconole@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> The openvswitch module shares a common conntrack and NAT infrastructure
>>> exposed via netfilter.  It's possible that a packet needs both SNAT and
>>> DNAT manipulation, due to e.g. tuple collision.  Netfilter can support
>>> this because it runs through the NAT table twice - once on ingress and
>>> again after egress.  The openvswitch module doesn't have such capability.
>>>
>>> Like netfilter hook infrastructure, we should run through NAT twice to
>>> keep the symmetry.
>>>
>>> Fixes: 05752523e565 ("openvswitch: Interface with NAT.")
>>> Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> The patch looks ok. But I am not able apply it. can you fix the encoding.
>
> Hrrm.  I didn't make any special changes (just used git send-email).  I
> will look at spinning a second patch.

Pravin,

I tried the following:

  10:36:59 aconole@dhcp-25 {(312434617cb1...)} ~/git/linux$ curl http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1192219/mbox/ > test.patch
    % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                   Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  100  4827  100  4827    0     0   8824      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  8808
  10:37:21 aconole@dhcp-25 {(312434617cb1...)} ~/git/linux$ git am test.patch
  Applying: openvswitch: support asymmetric conntrack
  10:37:24 aconole@dhcp-25 {(f759cc2b7323...)} ~/git/linux$ 


Can you check your mailer settings?  The patchwork mbox worked fine, and
I was able to apply from my own mbox as well.

-Aaron