[ovs-dev] ARP corner case in ovs_flow_extract()

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Tue Oct 23 20:42:22 UTC 2012


On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 02:10:57PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> There's a corner case in ovs_flow_extract() that seems a bit
> troublesome.  For an ARP with an opcode other than 1 or 2, we fill in
> key->ip.proto with the opcode but we do not adjust key_len to include
> the ARP info (so it won't get hashed).  However, in
> ovs_flow_to_nlattrs() we do include the opcode.in what we send to
> userspace, and in ovs_flow_from_nlattrs() we do include the ARP info
> (so it will get hashed).
> 
> I think that we need to move the assignment to key_len from where it
> is here:
>     if (key->ip.proto == ARPOP_REQUEST
>         || key->ip.proto == ARPOP_REPLY) {
>             memcpy(&key->ipv4.addr.src, arp->ar_sip, sizeof(key->ipv4.addr.src));
>             memcpy(&key->ipv4.addr.dst, arp->ar_tip, sizeof(key->ipv4.addr.dst));
>             memcpy(key->ipv4.arp.sha, arp->ar_sha, ETH_ALEN);
>             memcpy(key->ipv4.arp.tha, arp->ar_tha, ETH_ALEN);
>             key_len = SW_FLOW_KEY_OFFSET(ipv4.arp);
>     }
> to outside the conditional block.

Mehak's change:
        http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2012-October/022194.html
does this and presumably fixes the problem.



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