[ovs-dev] [PATCH] OVN: select a random mac_prefix if not provided

Mark Michelson mmichels at redhat.com
Wed Feb 20 22:22:13 UTC 2019


Looks good to me. The only potential issue here is that this constitutes 
a change in behavior with no configuration change. Is there a good place 
to note this so that it is clear to people who upgrade? Perhaps a NEWS 
entry?

On 2/20/19 10:53 AM, Lorenzo Bianconi wrote:
> Select a random IPAM mac_prefix if it has not been provided by the user.
> With this patch the admin can avoid to configure mac_prefix in order to
> avoid L2 address collisions if multiple OVN deployments share the same
> broadcast domain.
> Remove MAC_ADDR_PREFIX definitions/occurrences since now mac_prefix is
> always provided to ovn-northd
> 
> Tested-by: Miguel Duarte de Mora Barroso <mdbarroso at redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo.bianconi at redhat.com>
> ---
>   ovn/northd/ovn-northd.c | 30 +++++++++++-------------------
>   tests/ovn.at            |  3 +++
>   2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/ovn/northd/ovn-northd.c b/ovn/northd/ovn-northd.c
> index 3569ea2be..2b7a3634e 100644
> --- a/ovn/northd/ovn-northd.c
> +++ b/ovn/northd/ovn-northd.c
> @@ -62,7 +62,6 @@ static const char *ovnnb_db;
>   static const char *ovnsb_db;
>   static const char *unixctl_path;
>   
> -#define MAC_ADDR_PREFIX 0x0A0000000000ULL
>   #define MAC_ADDR_SPACE 0xffffff
>   
>   /* MAC address management (macam) table of "struct eth_addr"s, that holds the
> @@ -937,13 +936,8 @@ ipam_insert_mac(struct eth_addr *ea, bool check)
>       }
>   
>       uint64_t mac64 = eth_addr_to_uint64(*ea);
> -    uint64_t prefix;
> +    uint64_t prefix = eth_addr_to_uint64(mac_prefix);
>   
> -    if (!eth_addr_is_zero(mac_prefix)) {
> -        prefix = eth_addr_to_uint64(mac_prefix);
> -    } else {
> -        prefix = MAC_ADDR_PREFIX;
> -    }
>       /* If the new MAC was not assigned by this address management system or
>        * check is true and the new MAC is a duplicate, do not insert it into the
>        * macam hmap. */
> @@ -1056,11 +1050,7 @@ ipam_get_unused_mac(ovs_be32 ip)
>       for (i = 0; i < MAC_ADDR_SPACE - 1; i++) {
>           /* The tentative MAC's suffix will be in the interval (1, 0xfffffe). */
>           mac_addr_suffix = ((base_addr + i) % (MAC_ADDR_SPACE - 1)) + 1;
> -        if (!eth_addr_is_zero(mac_prefix)) {
> -            mac64 =  eth_addr_to_uint64(mac_prefix) | mac_addr_suffix;
> -        } else {
> -            mac64 = MAC_ADDR_PREFIX | mac_addr_suffix;
> -        }
> +        mac64 =  eth_addr_to_uint64(mac_prefix) | mac_addr_suffix;
>           eth_addr_from_uint64(mac64, &mac);
>           if (!ipam_is_duplicate_mac(&mac, mac64, true)) {
>               break;
> @@ -1132,13 +1122,7 @@ dynamic_mac_changed(const char *lsp_addresses,
>      }
>   
>      uint64_t mac64 = eth_addr_to_uint64(update->current_addresses.ea);
> -   uint64_t prefix;
> -
> -   if (!eth_addr_is_zero(mac_prefix)) {
> -       prefix = eth_addr_to_uint64(mac_prefix);
> -   } else {
> -       prefix = MAC_ADDR_PREFIX;
> -   }
> +   uint64_t prefix = eth_addr_to_uint64(mac_prefix);
>   
>      if ((mac64 ^ prefix) >> 24) {
>          return DYNAMIC;
> @@ -7300,6 +7284,14 @@ ovnnb_db_run(struct northd_context *ctx,
>                        &addr.ea[0], &addr.ea[1], &addr.ea[2])) {
>               mac_prefix = addr;
>           }
> +    } else {
> +        eth_addr_random(&mac_prefix);
> +        memset(&mac_prefix.ea[3], 0, 3);
> +
> +        char *addr_prefix = xasprintf(ETH_ADDR_FMT, ETH_ADDR_ARGS(mac_prefix));
> +        smap_add((struct smap *)&nb->options, "mac_prefix", addr_prefix);
> +        nbrec_nb_global_set_options(nb, &nb->options);
> +        free(addr_prefix)
>       }
>   
>       cleanup_macam(&macam);
> diff --git a/tests/ovn.at b/tests/ovn.at
> index cfdbf412c..7e69808ed 100644
> --- a/tests/ovn.at
> +++ b/tests/ovn.at
> @@ -5416,6 +5416,7 @@ ovn_start
>   
>   # Add a port to a switch that does not have a subnet set, then set the
>   # subnet which should result in an address being allocated for the port.
> +ovn-nbctl --wait=hv set NB_Global . options:mac_prefix="0a:00:00:00:00:00"
>   ovn-nbctl ls-add sw0
>   ovn-nbctl lsp-add sw0 p0 -- lsp-set-addresses p0 dynamic
>   ovn-nbctl --wait=sb add Logical-Switch sw0 other_config subnet=192.168.1.0/24
> @@ -5801,6 +5802,7 @@ ovn_start
>   ovn-nbctl lr-add R1
>   
>   # Test for a ping using dynamically allocated addresses.
> +ovn-nbctl --wait=hv set NB_Global . options:mac_prefix="0a:00:00:00:00:00"
>   ovn-nbctl ls-add foo -- add Logical_Switch foo other_config subnet=192.168.1.0/24
>   ovn-nbctl ls-add alice -- add Logical_Switch alice other_config subnet=192.168.2.0/24
>   
> @@ -12052,6 +12054,7 @@ AT_CLEANUP
>   AT_SETUP([ovn -- ipam to non-ipam])
>   ovn_start
>   
> +ovn-nbctl --wait=hv set NB_Global . options:mac_prefix="0a:00:00:00:00:00"
>   ovn-nbctl ls-add sw0
>   ovn-nbctl lsp-add sw0 p0 -- lsp-set-addresses p0 dynamic
>   ovn-nbctl --wait=sb add Logical-Switch sw0 other_config subnet=192.168.1.0/24
> 



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