[ovs-discuss] [PATCH] vswitchd: Mirror nothing, not everything, if mirror ports don't exist.

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Mon Aug 24 18:07:09 UTC 2009


If all of the ports specified as mirror selection criteria actually do not
exist, then until now the bridge would mirror all incoming packets (on
specified VLAN(s), if any).  This matches the behavior that occurs if no
mirror selection ports were specified at all, and so it makes a certain
amount of logical sense.

But it is far more likely that the user simply misspelled a port name, or
specified the name of a port that does not always exist.  In fact we have
seen this behavior in practice when the controller has not caught up to
the switch's current configuration.  So this commit changes the bridge to
instead disable a mirror if ports are specified and none of those ports
exist.

Bug #1904.
---
 vswitchd/bridge.c |    9 +++++++++
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/vswitchd/bridge.c b/vswitchd/bridge.c
index 3ffa671..6ee2ef5 100644
--- a/vswitchd/bridge.c
+++ b/vswitchd/bridge.c
@@ -3319,6 +3319,7 @@ mirror_reconfigure_one(struct mirror *m)
     int *vlans;
     size_t i;
     bool mirror_all_ports;
+    bool any_ports_specified;
 
     /* Get output port. */
     out_port_name = cfg_get_key(0, "mirror.%s.%s.output.port",
@@ -3357,11 +3358,18 @@ mirror_reconfigure_one(struct mirror *m)
     cfg_get_all_keys(&src_ports, "%s.select.src-port", pfx);
     cfg_get_all_keys(&dst_ports, "%s.select.dst-port", pfx);
     cfg_get_all_keys(&ports, "%s.select.port", pfx);
+    any_ports_specified = src_ports.n || dst_ports.n || ports.n;
     svec_append(&src_ports, &ports);
     svec_append(&dst_ports, &ports);
     svec_destroy(&ports);
     prune_ports(m, &src_ports);
     prune_ports(m, &dst_ports);
+    if (any_ports_specified && !src_ports.n && !dst_ports.n) {
+        VLOG_ERR("%s: none of the specified ports exist; "
+                 "disabling port mirror %s", pfx, pfx);
+        mirror_destroy(m);
+        goto exit;
+    }
 
     /* Get all the vlans, and drop duplicate and invalid vlans. */
     svec_init(&vlan_strings);
@@ -3413,6 +3421,7 @@ mirror_reconfigure_one(struct mirror *m)
     }
 
     /* Clean up. */
+exit:
     svec_destroy(&src_ports);
     svec_destroy(&dst_ports);
     free(pfx);
-- 
1.6.3.3





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