Bug 2151127

Summary:	use mac to search interface table got error
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux Fast Datapath	Reporter:	mhou <mhou>
Component:	openvswitch	Assignee:	Timothy Redaelli <tredaelli>
openvswitch sub component:	other	QA Contact:	mhou <mhou>
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Description mhou 2022-12-06 08:20:24 UTC

Description of problem:
Passing in the mac address as a string returns unexpected ":" parsing set of up to 1 strings

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
5.14.0-204.rt14.205.el9.x86_64
openvswitch2.17-2.17.0-55.el9fdp.x86_64

How reproducible:100%


Steps to Reproduce:
1.# ovs-vsctl --columns=name find interface mac_in_use='ec:0d:9a:2f:b5:63'
ovs-vsctl: ec:0d:9a:2f:b5:63: unexpected ":" parsing set of up to 1 strings
# ovs-vsctl --columns=name find interface mac_in_use='ec\:0d\:9a\:2f\:b5\:63'
name                : ens2f1np1

Actual results:
The mac address is passed in as a string that requires additional escape characters

Expected results:
The mac address is passed in as a string without an escape character

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