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| author | Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com> | 2015-09-21 20:21:20 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2015-09-22 17:33:41 -0700 |
| commit | ae5f2fb1d51fa128a460bcfbe3c56d7ab8bf6a43 (patch) | |
| tree | 7e05a2752e98068a8d19d95ccad191f896e73b12 /net/openvswitch/datapath.c | |
| parent | 53adc9e83028d9e35b6408231ebaf62a94a16e4d (diff) | |
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openvswitch: Zero flows on allocation.
When support for megaflows was introduced, OVS needed to start
installing flows with a mask applied to them. Since masking is an
expensive operation, OVS also had an optimization that would only
take the parts of the flow keys that were covered by a non-zero
mask. The values stored in the remaining pieces should not matter
because they are masked out.
While this works fine for the purposes of matching (which must always
look at the mask), serialization to netlink can be problematic. Since
the flow and the mask are serialized separately, the uninitialized
portions of the flow can be encoded with whatever values happen to be
present.
In terms of functionality, this has little effect since these fields
will be masked out by definition. However, it leaks kernel memory to
userspace, which is a potential security vulnerability. It is also
possible that other code paths could look at the masked key and get
uninitialized data, although this does not currently appear to be an
issue in practice.
This removes the mask optimization for flows that are being installed.
This was always intended to be the case as the mask optimizations were
really targetting per-packet flow operations.
Fixes: 03f0d916 ("openvswitch: Mega flow implementation")
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/openvswitch/datapath.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/openvswitch/datapath.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/openvswitch/datapath.c b/net/openvswitch/datapath.c index 6fbd2decb19e..b816ff871528 100644 --- a/net/openvswitch/datapath.c +++ b/net/openvswitch/datapath.c @@ -952,7 +952,7 @@ static int ovs_flow_cmd_new(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info) if (error) goto err_kfree_flow; - ovs_flow_mask_key(&new_flow->key, &key, &mask); + ovs_flow_mask_key(&new_flow->key, &key, true, &mask); /* Extract flow identifier. */ error = ovs_nla_get_identifier(&new_flow->id, a[OVS_FLOW_ATTR_UFID], @@ -1080,7 +1080,7 @@ static struct sw_flow_actions *get_flow_actions(struct net *net, struct sw_flow_key masked_key; int error; - ovs_flow_mask_key(&masked_key, key, mask); + ovs_flow_mask_key(&masked_key, key, true, mask); error = ovs_nla_copy_actions(net, a, &masked_key, &acts, log); if (error) { OVS_NLERR(log, |
