diff --git a/net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c b/net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c
index a08ff834676ba9a8f82bb602cbc15d0d20e76478..1105a838bab83f9fe647423060d08e4a415bab61 100644
--- a/net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c
+++ b/net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c
@@ -665,6 +665,8 @@ static int ip_tun_from_nlattr(const struct nlattr *attr,
 			tun_flags |= TUNNEL_VXLAN_OPT;
 			opts_type = type;
 			break;
+		case OVS_TUNNEL_KEY_ATTR_PAD:
+			break;
 		default:
 			OVS_NLERR(log, "Unknown IP tunnel attribute %d",
 				  type);