[ovs-dev] [runt-flows 7/8] datapath: Fix default value of skb transport_header.

[Jesse Gross]

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 03:03:20PM -0700, Jesse Gross wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
>> > @@ -353,7 +364,7 @@ int flow_extract(struct sk_buff *skb, u16 in_port, struct odp_flow_key *key)
>> >                        }
>> >                }
>> >        } else {
>> > -               skb_reset_transport_header(skb);
>> > +               skb->transport_header = skb->network_header;
>> >        }
>>
>> We never set the transport header if we have a valid ARP header.  I
>> don't think it's necessary but then that makes me wonder why this is
>> necessary.
>
> You're right.  Some actions do care about it for IP, but nothing cares
> about it in other cases, so I just dropped the "else".
>
> Here's the new version:

Looks good.  For the record, the transport header is initialized to
the same value as the network header in netif_receive_skb() so in the
cases where we don't set it to something else we actually get the same
value as if we reset it.