openvswitch: add ct_clear action

This adds a ct_clear action for clearing conntrack state. ct_clear is
currently implemented in OVS userspace, but is not backed by an action
in the kernel datapath. This is useful for flows that may modify a
packet tuple after a ct lookup has already occurred.

Signed-off-by: Eric Garver <e@erig.me>
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Garver 2017-10-10 16:54:44 -04:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent 833e0e2f24
commit b8226962b1
5 changed files with 29 additions and 0 deletions

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@ -807,6 +807,7 @@ struct ovs_action_push_eth {
* packet.
* @OVS_ACTION_ATTR_POP_ETH: Pop the outermost Ethernet header off the
* packet.
* @OVS_ACTION_ATTR_CT_CLEAR: Clear conntrack state from the packet.
*
* Only a single header can be set with a single %OVS_ACTION_ATTR_SET. Not all
* fields within a header are modifiable, e.g. the IPv4 protocol and fragment
@ -836,6 +837,7 @@ enum ovs_action_attr {
OVS_ACTION_ATTR_TRUNC, /* u32 struct ovs_action_trunc. */
OVS_ACTION_ATTR_PUSH_ETH, /* struct ovs_action_push_eth. */
OVS_ACTION_ATTR_POP_ETH, /* No argument. */
OVS_ACTION_ATTR_CT_CLEAR, /* No argument. */
__OVS_ACTION_ATTR_MAX, /* Nothing past this will be accepted
* from userspace. */