+/* Given NXM/OXM value 'value' and mask 'mask', each 'width' bytes long,
+ * checks for any 1-bit in the value where there is a 0-bit in the mask. If it
+ * finds one, logs a warning. */
+static void
+check_mask_consistency(const uint8_t *p, const struct mf_field *mf)
+{
+ unsigned int width = mf->n_bytes;
+ const uint8_t *value = p + 4;
+ const uint8_t *mask = p + 4 + width;
+ unsigned int i;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < width; i++) {
+ if (value[i] & ~mask[i]) {
+ if (!VLOG_DROP_WARN(&rl)) {
+ char *s = nx_match_to_string(p, width * 2 + 4);
+ VLOG_WARN_RL(&rl, "NXM/OXM entry %s has 1-bits in value for "
+ "bits wildcarded by the mask. (Future versions "
+ "of OVS may report this as an OpenFlow error.)",
+ s);
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+ }
+}
+