[ovs-dev] [PATCH] connmgr: Fix crash when in_band_create() fails.

Ben Pfaff blp at ovn.org
Mon Jul 17 16:54:54 UTC 2017


update_in_band_remotes() created an in-band manager and then tried to work
with it without first checking whether creation had succeeded.  If it
failed, this led to a segfault.

Reported-by: Numan Siddique <nusiddiq at redhat.com>
Reported-at: https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2017-July/335530.html
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org>
---
 ofproto/connmgr.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ofproto/connmgr.c b/ofproto/connmgr.c
index 2b0b78f6192d..2dc414d31239 100644
--- a/ofproto/connmgr.c
+++ b/ofproto/connmgr.c
@@ -791,12 +791,12 @@ update_in_band_remotes(struct connmgr *mgr)
         if (!mgr->in_band) {
             in_band_create(mgr->ofproto, mgr->local_port_name, &mgr->in_band);
         }
-        in_band_set_queue(mgr->in_band, mgr->in_band_queue);
     } else {
         /* in_band_run() needs a chance to delete any existing in-band flows.
          * We will destroy mgr->in_band after it's done with that. */
     }
     if (mgr->in_band) {
+        in_band_set_queue(mgr->in_band, mgr->in_band_queue);
         in_band_set_remotes(mgr->in_band, addrs, n_addrs);
     }
 
-- 
2.10.2



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