Adrian Moreno amorenoz@redhat.com writes:
Netlink flags, although they don't have payload at the netlink level, are represented as having a "True" value in pyroute2.
Without it, trying to add a flow with a flag-type action (e.g: pop_vlan) fails with the following traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "[...]/ovs-dpctl.py", line 2498, in <module> sys.exit(main(sys.argv)) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "[...]/ovs-dpctl.py", line 2487, in main ovsflow.add_flow(rep["dpifindex"], flow) File "[...]/ovs-dpctl.py", line 2136, in add_flow reply = self.nlm_request( ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "[...]/pyroute2/netlink/nlsocket.py", line 822, in nlm_request return tuple(self._genlm_request(*argv, **kwarg)) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "[...]/pyroute2/netlink/generic/__init__.py", line 126, in nlm_request return tuple(super().nlm_request(*argv, **kwarg)) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "[...]/pyroute2/netlink/nlsocket.py", line 1124, in nlm_request self.put(msg, msg_type, msg_flags, msg_seq=msg_seq) File "[...]/pyroute2/netlink/nlsocket.py", line 389, in put self.sendto_gate(msg, addr) File "[...]/pyroute2/netlink/nlsocket.py", line 1056, in sendto_gate msg.encode() File "[...]/pyroute2/netlink/__init__.py", line 1245, in encode offset = self.encode_nlas(offset) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "[...]/pyroute2/netlink/__init__.py", line 1560, in encode_nlas nla_instance.setvalue(cell[1]) File "[...]/pyroute2/netlink/__init__.py", line 1265, in setvalue nlv.setvalue(nla_tuple[1]) ~~~~~~~~~^^^ IndexError: list index out of range
Signed-off-by: Adrian Moreno amorenoz@redhat.com
Acked-by: Aaron Conole aconole@redhat.com
I don't know which pyroute2 version I had used when I tested this previously, but even on my current system I get this error now. Thanks for the fix.
tools/testing/selftests/net/openvswitch/ovs-dpctl.py | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/openvswitch/ovs-dpctl.py b/tools/testing/selftests/net/openvswitch/ovs-dpctl.py index b76907ac0092..a2395c3f37a1 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/openvswitch/ovs-dpctl.py +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/openvswitch/ovs-dpctl.py @@ -537,7 +537,7 @@ class ovsactions(nla): for flat_act in parse_flat_map: if parse_starts_block(actstr, flat_act[0], False): actstr = actstr[len(flat_act[0]):]
self["attrs"].append([flat_act[1]])
self["attrs"].append([flat_act[1], True]) actstr = actstr[strspn(actstr, ", ") :] parsed = True