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Revision d913d3a763a6f66a862a6eafcf6da89a7905832a authored by Samuel Gauthier on 28 June 2016, 15:22:26 UTC, committed by David S. Miller on 29 June 2016, 12:13:59 UTC 
openvswitch: fix conntrack netlink event delivery
 
Only the first and last netlink message for a particular conntrack are
actually sent. The first message is sent through nf_conntrack_confirm when
the conntrack is committed. The last one is sent when the conntrack is
destroyed on timeout. The other conntrack state change messages are not
advertised.

When the conntrack subsystem is used from netfilter, nf_conntrack_confirm
is called for each packet, from the postrouting hook, which in turn calls
nf_ct_deliver_cached_events to send the state change netlink messages.

This commit fixes the problem by calling nf_ct_deliver_cached_events in the
non-commit case as well.

Fixes: 7f8a436eaa2c ("openvswitch: Add conntrack action")
CC: Joe Stringer <joestringer@nicira.com>
CC: Justin Pettit <jpettit@nicira.com>
CC: Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com>
CC: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Gauthier <samuel.gauthier@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Joe Stringer <joe@ovn.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Tip revision: d913d3a763a6f66a862a6eafcf6da89a7905832a authored by Samuel Gauthier on 28 June 2016, 15:22:26 UTC
openvswitch: fix conntrack netlink event delivery
Tip revision: d913d3a
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