Netlink flags, although they don't have payload at the netlink level,
are represented as having "True" as value in pyroute2.

Without it, trying to add a flow with a flag-type action (e.g: pop_vlan)
fails with the following traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "[...]/ovs-dpctl.py", line 2498, in <module>
    sys.exit(main(sys.argv))
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "[...]/ovs-dpctl.py", line 2487, in main
    ovsflow.add_flow(rep["dpifindex"], flow)
  File "[...]/ovs-dpctl.py", line 2136, in add_flow
    reply = self.nlm_request(
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "[...]/pyroute2/netlink/nlsocket.py", line 822, in nlm_request
    return tuple(self._genlm_request(*argv, **kwarg))
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "[...]/pyroute2/netlink/generic/__init__.py", line 126, in
nlm_request
    return tuple(super().nlm_request(*argv, **kwarg))
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "[...]/pyroute2/netlink/nlsocket.py", line 1124, in nlm_request
    self.put(msg, msg_type, msg_flags, msg_seq=msg_seq)
  File "[...]/pyroute2/netlink/nlsocket.py", line 389, in put
    self.sendto_gate(msg, addr)
  File "[...]/pyroute2/netlink/nlsocket.py", line 1056, in sendto_gate
    msg.encode()
  File "[...]/pyroute2/netlink/__init__.py", line 1245, in encode
    offset = self.encode_nlas(offset)
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "[...]/pyroute2/netlink/__init__.py", line 1560, in encode_nlas
    nla_instance.setvalue(cell[1])
  File "[...]/pyroute2/netlink/__init__.py", line 1265, in setvalue
    nlv.setvalue(nla_tuple[1])
                 ~~~~~~~~~^^^
IndexError: list index out of range

Signed-off-by: Adrian Moreno <amorenoz@redhat.com>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/net/openvswitch/ovs-dpctl.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/openvswitch/ovs-dpctl.py b/tools/testing/selftests/net/openvswitch/ovs-dpctl.py
index 1dd057afd3fb..9f8dec2f6539 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/openvswitch/ovs-dpctl.py
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/openvswitch/ovs-dpctl.py
@@ -531,7 +531,7 @@ class ovsactions(nla):
             for flat_act in parse_flat_map:
                 if parse_starts_block(actstr, flat_act[0], False):
                     actstr = actstr[len(flat_act[0]):]
-                    self["attrs"].append([flat_act[1]])
+                    self["attrs"].append([flat_act[1], True])
                     actstr = actstr[strspn(actstr, ", ") :]
                     parsed = True
 
-- 
2.45.1

Adrian Moreno <amorenoz@redhat.com> writes:

> Netlink flags, although they don't have payload at the netlink level,
> are represented as having "True" as value in pyroute2.
>
> Without it, trying to add a flow with a flag-type action (e.g: pop_vlan)
> fails with the following traceback:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "[...]/ovs-dpctl.py", line 2498, in <module>
>     sys.exit(main(sys.argv))
>              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>   File "[...]/ovs-dpctl.py", line 2487, in main
>     ovsflow.add_flow(rep["dpifindex"], flow)
>   File "[...]/ovs-dpctl.py", line 2136, in add_flow
>     reply = self.nlm_request(
>             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>   File "[...]/pyroute2/netlink/nlsocket.py", line 822, in nlm_request
>     return tuple(self._genlm_request(*argv, **kwarg))
>                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>   File "[...]/pyroute2/netlink/generic/__init__.py", line 126, in
> nlm_request
>     return tuple(super().nlm_request(*argv, **kwarg))
>            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>   File "[...]/pyroute2/netlink/nlsocket.py", line 1124, in nlm_request
>     self.put(msg, msg_type, msg_flags, msg_seq=msg_seq)
>   File "[...]/pyroute2/netlink/nlsocket.py", line 389, in put
>     self.sendto_gate(msg, addr)
>   File "[...]/pyroute2/netlink/nlsocket.py", line 1056, in sendto_gate
>     msg.encode()
>   File "[...]/pyroute2/netlink/__init__.py", line 1245, in encode
>     offset = self.encode_nlas(offset)
>              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>   File "[...]/pyroute2/netlink/__init__.py", line 1560, in encode_nlas
>     nla_instance.setvalue(cell[1])
>   File "[...]/pyroute2/netlink/__init__.py", line 1265, in setvalue
>     nlv.setvalue(nla_tuple[1])
>                  ~~~~~~~~~^^^
> IndexError: list index out of range
>
> Signed-off-by: Adrian Moreno <amorenoz@redhat.com>
> ---

Acked-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>