[ovs-dev] [PATCH] revalidator: Fix access of uninitialized memory.

Joe Stringer joestringer at nicira.com
Tue Dec 9 01:37:44 UTC 2014


On 8 December 2014 at 17:33, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 05:26:54PM -0800, Joe Stringer wrote:
>> Commit 64bb477 "dpif: Minimize memory copy for revalidation." introduced
>> a bug where the corner case of ukey creation (in revalidator threads)
>> could result in access to uninitialized memory when deleting flows from
>> the datapath. This could result in OVS aborting or deadlock. Fix it.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joestringer at nicira.com>
>
> Seems obviously correct, thanks!
>
> Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>

Thanks, pushed to master.



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