• Pravin B Shelar's avatar
    openvswitch: Create right mask with disabled megaflows · f47de068
    Pravin B Shelar authored
    If megaflows are disabled, the userspace does not send the netlink attribute
    OVS_FLOW_ATTR_MASK, and the kernel must create an exact match mask.
    
    sw_flow_mask_set() sets every bytes (in 'range') of the mask to 0xff, even the
    bytes that represent padding for struct sw_flow, or the bytes that represent
    fields that may not be set during ovs_flow_extract().
    This is a problem, because when we extract a flow from a packet,
    we do not memset() anymore the struct sw_flow to 0.
    
    This commit gets rid of sw_flow_mask_set() and introduces mask_set_nlattr(),
    which operates on the netlink attributes rather than on the mask key. Using
    this approach we are sure that only the bytes that the user provided in the
    flow are matched.
    
    Also, if the parse_flow_mask_nlattrs() for the mask ENCAP attribute fails, we
    now return with an error.
    
    This bug is introduced by commit 07148121
    ("openvswitch: Eliminate memset() from flow_extract").
    Reported-by: default avatarAlex Wang <alexw@nicira.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniele Di Proietto <ddiproietto@vmware.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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