[ovs-dev] [PATCH] dpif: Use separate OVS_PACKET_ATTR_PROBE for packet messges

[Jesse Gross]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 9:21 AM, Thomas Graf <tgraf at noironetworks.com> wrote:
> User space is currently sending a OVS_FLOW_ATTR_PROBE for both flow
> and packet messages. This leads to an out-of-bounds access in
> ovs_packet_cmd_execute() because OVS_FLOW_ATTR_PROBE >
> OVS_PACKET_ATTR_MAX.
>
> Introduce a new OVS_PACKET_ATTR_PROBE with the same numeric value
> as OVS_FLOW_ATTR_PROBE to grow the range of accepted packet attributes
> while maintaining binary compatibility with existing OVS binaries.
>
> Fixes: 9233ce ("datapath: Add support for OVS_FLOW_ATTR_PROBE.")
> Reported-by: Sander Eikelenboom <linux at eikelenboom.it>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf at noironetworks.com>

Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com>