net: openvswitch: fix uAPI incompatibility with existing user space
Few years ago OVS user space made a strange choice in the commit [1] to define types only valid for the user space inside the copy of a kernel uAPI header. '#ifndef __KERNEL__' and another attribute was added later. This leads to the inevitable clash between user space and kernel types when the kernel uAPI is extended. The issue was unveiled with the addition of a new type for IPv6 extension header in kernel uAPI. When kernel provides the OVS_KEY_ATTR_IPV6_EXTHDRS attribute to the older user space application, application tries to parse it as OVS_KEY_ATTR_PACKET_TYPE and discards the whole netlink message as malformed. Since OVS_KEY_ATTR_IPV6_EXTHDRS is supplied along with every IPv6 packet that goes to the user space, IPv6 support is fully broken. Fixing that by bringing these user space attributes to the kernel uAPI to avoid the clash. Strictly speaking this is not the problem of the kernel uAPI, but changing it is the only way to avoid breakage of the older user space applications at this point. These 2 types are explicitly rejected now since they should not be passed to the kernel. Additionally, OVS_KEY_ATTR_TUNNEL_INFO moved out from the '#ifdef __KERNEL__' as there is no good reason to hide it from the userspace. And it's also explicitly rejected now, because it's for in-kernel use only. Comments with warnings were added to avoid the problem coming back. (1 << type) converted to (1ULL << type) to avoid integer overflow on OVS_KEY_ATTR_IPV6_EXTHDRS, since it equals 32 now. [1] beb75a40fdc2 ("userspace: Switching of L3 packets in L2 pipeline") Fixes: 28a3f060 ("net: openvswitch: IPv6: Add IPv6 extension header support") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/3adf00c7-fe65-3ef4-b6d7-6d8a0cad8a5f@nvidia.com Link: https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/commit/beb75a40fdc295bfd6521b0068b4cd12f6de507cReported-by: Roi Dayan <roid@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org> Acked-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> Acked-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220309222033.3018976-1-i.maximets@ovn.orgSigned-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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