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openvswitch: Reset key metadata for packet execution.

Userspace packet execute command pass down flow key for given
packet. But userspace can skip some parameter with zero value.
Therefore kernel needs to initialize key metadata to zero.

Fixes: 0714812134 ("openvswitch: Eliminate memset() from flow_extract.")
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Pravin B Shelar 10 years ago
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      net/openvswitch/flow.c

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net/openvswitch/flow.c

@@ -717,6 +717,8 @@ int ovs_flow_key_extract_userspace(const struct nlattr *attr,
 {
 	int err;
 
+	memset(key, 0, OVS_SW_FLOW_KEY_METADATA_SIZE);
+
 	/* Extract metadata from netlink attributes. */
 	err = ovs_nla_get_flow_metadata(attr, key, log);
 	if (err)