Re: [PATCH net 1/2] openvswitch: support asymmetric conntrack

From: Pravin Shelar
Date: Sat Nov 09 2019 - 17:15:49 EST


On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 1:07 PM Aaron Conole <aconole@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The openvswitch module shares a common conntrack and NAT infrastructure
> exposed via netfilter. It's possible that a packet needs both SNAT and
> DNAT manipulation, due to e.g. tuple collision. Netfilter can support
> this because it runs through the NAT table twice - once on ingress and
> again after egress. The openvswitch module doesn't have such capability.
>
> Like netfilter hook infrastructure, we should run through NAT twice to
> keep the symmetry.
>
> Fixes: 05752523e565 ("openvswitch: Interface with NAT.")
> Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@xxxxxxxxxx>

The patch looks ok. But I am not able apply it. can you fix the encoding.