On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 11:08 AM, Joe Stringer <joestrin...@nicira.com> wrote:
> If OVS receives a packet from another namespace, then the packet should
> be scrubbed. However, people have already begun to rely on the behaviour
> that skb->mark is preserved across namespaces, so retain this one field.
>
> This is mainly to address information leakage between namespaces when
> using OVS internal ports, but by placing it in ovs_vport_receive() it is
> more generally applicable, meaning it should not be overlooked if other
> port types are allowed to be moved into namespaces in future.
>
> Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joestrin...@nicira.com>

Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshe...@nicira.com>
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