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openvswitch: fix conntrack netlink event delivery
authorSamuel Gauthier <samuel.gauthier@6wind.com>
Tue, 28 Jun 2016 15:22:26 +0000 (17:22 +0200)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Wed, 29 Jun 2016 12:13:59 +0000 (08:13 -0400)
commitf86a7e48569c6224850e9f33a202d346df6cd4b4
tree5c64c9ad187b5116a7b69a3a9d4e82ed620047d5
parent5c938f4769bd13ff43e9d1115b877f63a64389a4
openvswitch: fix conntrack netlink event delivery

Only the first and last netlink message for a particular conntrack are
actually sent. The first message is sent through nf_conntrack_confirm when
the conntrack is committed. The last one is sent when the conntrack is
destroyed on timeout. The other conntrack state change messages are not
advertised.

When the conntrack subsystem is used from netfilter, nf_conntrack_confirm
is called for each packet, from the postrouting hook, which in turn calls
nf_ct_deliver_cached_events to send the state change netlink messages.

This commit fixes the problem by calling nf_ct_deliver_cached_events in the
non-commit case as well.

Fixes: 7ea99650bc97 ("openvswitch: Add conntrack action")
CC: Joe Stringer <joestringer@nicira.com>
CC: Justin Pettit <jpettit@nicira.com>
CC: Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com>
CC: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Gauthier <samuel.gauthier@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Joe Stringer <joe@ovn.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/openvswitch/conntrack.c