From 90b8c2f7c08eab4aea41601e57d4eee021ef5561 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jarno Rajahalme Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 17:34:48 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] datapath: Avoid assigning a NULL pointer to flow actions. Flow SET can accept an empty set of actions, with the intended semantics of leaving existing actions unmodified. This seems to have been brokin after OVS 1.7, as we have assigned the flow's actions pointer to NULL in this case, but we never check for the NULL pointer later on. This patch restores the intended behavior and documents it in the include/linux/openvswitch.h. Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar --- datapath/datapath.c | 14 ++++++++------ include/linux/openvswitch.h | 4 +++- 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/datapath/datapath.c b/datapath/datapath.c index f7c3391ce..71792de6c 100644 --- a/datapath/datapath.c +++ b/datapath/datapath.c @@ -811,6 +811,7 @@ static int ovs_flow_cmd_new_or_set(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info) goto err_kfree; } } else if (info->genlhdr->cmd == OVS_FLOW_CMD_NEW) { + /* OVS_FLOW_CMD_NEW must have actions. */ error = -EINVAL; goto error; } @@ -850,8 +851,6 @@ static int ovs_flow_cmd_new_or_set(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info) reply = ovs_flow_cmd_build_info(flow, dp, info, OVS_FLOW_CMD_NEW); } else { /* We found a matching flow. */ - struct sw_flow_actions *old_acts; - /* Bail out if we're not allowed to modify an existing flow. * We accept NLM_F_CREATE in place of the intended NLM_F_EXCL * because Generic Netlink treats the latter as a dump @@ -867,11 +866,14 @@ static int ovs_flow_cmd_new_or_set(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info) if (!ovs_flow_cmp_unmasked_key(flow, &match)) goto err_unlock_ovs; - /* Update actions. */ - old_acts = ovsl_dereference(flow->sf_acts); - rcu_assign_pointer(flow->sf_acts, acts); - ovs_nla_free_flow_actions(old_acts); + /* Update actions, if present. */ + if (acts) { + struct sw_flow_actions *old_acts; + old_acts = ovsl_dereference(flow->sf_acts); + rcu_assign_pointer(flow->sf_acts, acts); + ovs_nla_free_flow_actions(old_acts); + } reply = ovs_flow_cmd_build_info(flow, dp, info, OVS_FLOW_CMD_NEW); /* Clear stats. */ diff --git a/include/linux/openvswitch.h b/include/linux/openvswitch.h index d1ff5ec7b..e39e4377b 100644 --- a/include/linux/openvswitch.h +++ b/include/linux/openvswitch.h @@ -426,7 +426,9 @@ struct ovs_key_nd { * @OVS_FLOW_ATTR_ACTIONS: Nested %OVS_ACTION_ATTR_* attributes specifying * the actions to take for packets that match the key. Always present in * notifications. Required for %OVS_FLOW_CMD_NEW requests, optional for - * %OVS_FLOW_CMD_SET requests. + * %OVS_FLOW_CMD_SET requests. An %OVS_FLOW_CMD_SET without + * %OVS_FLOW_ATTR_ACTIONS will not modify the actions. To clear the actions, + * an %OVS_FLOW_ATTR_ACTIONS without any nested attributes must be given. * @OVS_FLOW_ATTR_STATS: &struct ovs_flow_stats giving statistics for this * flow. Present in notifications if the stats would be nonzero. Ignored in * requests. -- 2.43.0