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Bug 2165879

Summary: [openvswitch] DPDK interfaces dp-packet headroom and data buffer can't be dynamically adjusted
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Fast Datapath Reporter: David Marchand <dmarchan>
Component: openvswitchAssignee: David Marchand <dmarchan>
openvswitch sub component: ovs-dpdk QA Contact: qding
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Priority: unspecified CC: ctrautma, jhsiao, ktraynor
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Description David Marchand 2023-01-31 10:55:14 UTC 
This is kind of a theoretical issue.

DPDK based dp-packets points to data buffers that can't be expanded dynamically.
One potential issue would be when encapsulating a packet received from a DPDK interface, and require more than 128 bytes of headroom.
In such a setup, OVS would hit an assert when trying to expand this dp-packet (in dp_packet_resize()).

This can be reproduced with 3 levels of vxlan tunnels, for example.
Comment 1 David Marchand 2023-01-31 10:56:24 UTC 
One fix has been posted upstream but still needs some work (adding a unit test): https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/openvswitch/patch/20220318153339.31083-1-david.marchand@redhat.com/