[ovs-dev] openflow-1.0 : ovs-vswitchd received SIGSEGV when netflow was specified

Tetsuo NAKAGAWA nakagawa at mxc.nes.nec.co.jp
Thu Feb 25 04:16:00 UTC 2010


Hi.

I'm using Open vSwitch with openflow-1.0 branch.

When I specified "netflow.<name>.host" in ovs-vswitchd.conf,
ovs-vswitchd received SIGSEGV.

  Feb 24 21:22:24|00012|collectors|WARN|couldn't open connection to collector 192.168.100.20:9901 (Network is unreachable)
  Feb 24 21:22:34|00013|fault|EMER|Caught signal 11.

The investigation result by gdb is as follows.

  Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
  [New process 6903]
  #0  log_backtrace () at lib/fault.c:51
  51               frame != NULL && frame[0] != NULL;
  (gdb) bt
  #0  log_backtrace () at lib/fault.c:51
  #1  0x0807586f in fault_handler (sig_nr=11) at lib/fault.c:34
  #2  <signal handler called>
  #3  collectors_send (c=0x0, payload=0x86cdea0, n=552) at ofproto/collectors.c:116
  #4  0x08069577 in netflow_run (nf=0x86cc1a0) at ofproto/netflow.c:194
  #5  0x080654c8 in ofproto_run1 (p=0x869ed20) at ofproto/ofproto.c:889
  #6  0x0805554c in bridge_run () at vswitchd/bridge.c:1162
  #7  0x0805e787 in main (argc=Cannot access memory at address 0x0
  ) at vswitchd/ovs-vswitchd.c:102
  #3  collectors_send (c=0x0, payload=0x86cdea0, n=552) at ofproto/collectors.c:116
  116         for (i = 0; i < c->n_fds; i++) {
  (gdb) p c
  $1 = (const struct collectors *) 0x0

SIGSEGV occurs becaus 'c' (collecturs) is NULL.

  (gdb) l
  111     void
  112     collectors_send(const struct collectors *c, const void *payload, size_t n)
  113     {
  114         size_t i;
  115     
  116         for (i = 0; i < c->n_fds; i++) {
  117             static struct vlog_rate_limit rl = VLOG_RATE_LIMIT_INIT(1, 5);
  118             if (send(c->fds[i], payload, n, 0) == -1) {
  119                 VLOG_WARN_RL(&rl, "sending to collector failed: %s",
  120                              strerror(errno));
  (gdb) frame 4
  #4  0x08069577 in netflow_run (nf=0x86cc1a0) at ofproto/netflow.c:194
  194             collectors_send(nf->collectors, nf->packet.data, nf->packet.size);
  (gdb) l
  189     
  190     void
  191     netflow_run(struct netflow *nf)
  192     {
  193         if (nf->packet.size) {
  194             collectors_send(nf->collectors, nf->packet.data, nf->packet.size);
  195             nf->packet.size = 0;
  196         }
  197     }
  198     
  (gdb) p *nf
  $2 = {engine_type = 0 '\0', engine_id = 0 '\0', boot_time = 1266990334236, collectors = 0x0, add_id_to_iface = false, netflow_cnt = 52, packet = {base = 0x86cdea0, 
      allocated = 1500, data = 0x86cdea0, size = 552, l2 = 0x0, l3 = 0x0, l4 = 0x0, l7 = 0x0, next = 0x0, private = 0x0}, active_timeout = 600000, 
    reconfig_time = 1266990334236}

"ofproto->netflow->collectors" is NULL.

"collectors" was set NULL because inet_open_active() was
failed that is called by collectors_create().

There were no defect in previous source code because
"struct collectors" doesn't exist.

The previous source code is as follows.

  void
  netflow_run(struct netflow *nf)
  {   
      size_t i;
      
      if (!nf->packet.size) {
          return;
      }
      
      for (i = 0; i < nf->n_fds; i++) {
          if (send(nf->fds[i], nf->packet.data, nf->packet.size, 0) == -1) {
              VLOG_WARN_RL(&rl, "netflow message send failed: %s",
                           strerror(errno));
          }
      }
      nf->packet.size = 0;
  }

When inet_open_active() was failed, nf->n_fds will set 0.
Therefore nothing is processed and a problem doesn't occur.

But "collectors" has added to the present source code by
following correction.

  http://openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=openvswitch;a=commit;h=6bab37989b1b5e8981bee80e1fedef621799332c

Therefore before referring to
"ofproto->netflow->collectors->n_fds", a check of whether
"ofproto->netflow->collectors" is NULL is needed.

The patch to this defect is as follows.

  --- ./openvswitch-openflow-1.0-20100216.org/ofproto/netflow.c   2010-02-13 06:18:45.000000000 +0900
  +++ ./openvswitch-openflow-1.0-20100216/ofproto/netflow.c       2010-02-25 10:48:16.000000000 +0900
  @@ -190,7 +190,7 @@
   void
   netflow_run(struct netflow *nf)
   {
  -    if (nf->packet.size) {
  +    if (nf->packet.size && nf->collectors) {
           collectors_send(nf->collectors, nf->packet.data, nf->packet.size);
           nf->packet.size = 0;
       }


--- Tetsuo NAKAGAWA





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