openvswitch: change type of UPCALL_PID attribute to NLA_UNSPEC
authorLi RongQing <lirongqing@baidu.com>
Tue, 24 Sep 2019 11:11:52 +0000 (19:11 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 5 Oct 2019 11:09:29 +0000 (13:09 +0200)
[ Upstream commit ea8564c865299815095bebeb4b25bef474218e4c ]

userspace openvswitch patch "(dpif-linux: Implement the API
functions to allow multiple handler threads read upcall)"
changes its type from U32 to UNSPEC, but leave the kernel
unchanged

and after kernel 6e237d099fac "(netlink: Relax attr validation
for fixed length types)", this bug is exposed by the below
warning

[   57.215841] netlink: 'ovs-vswitchd': attribute type 5 has an invalid length.

Fixes: 5cd667b0a456 ("openvswitch: Allow each vport to have an array of 'port_id's")
Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <lirongqing@baidu.com>
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/openvswitch/datapath.c

index 0f5ce77..8e396c7 100644 (file)
@@ -2239,7 +2239,7 @@ static const struct nla_policy vport_policy[OVS_VPORT_ATTR_MAX + 1] = {
        [OVS_VPORT_ATTR_STATS] = { .len = sizeof(struct ovs_vport_stats) },
        [OVS_VPORT_ATTR_PORT_NO] = { .type = NLA_U32 },
        [OVS_VPORT_ATTR_TYPE] = { .type = NLA_U32 },
-       [OVS_VPORT_ATTR_UPCALL_PID] = { .type = NLA_U32 },
+       [OVS_VPORT_ATTR_UPCALL_PID] = { .type = NLA_UNSPEC },
        [OVS_VPORT_ATTR_OPTIONS] = { .type = NLA_NESTED },
        [OVS_VPORT_ATTR_IFINDEX] = { .type = NLA_U32 },
        [OVS_VPORT_ATTR_NETNSID] = { .type = NLA_S32 },