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authorThomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>2013-12-13 15:22:19 +0100
committerJesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>2014-01-06 15:53:00 -0800
commit44da5ae5fbea4686f667dc854e5ea16814e44c59 (patch)
tree66c2cb74f950abe16d4b811068bfefb045037e05 /net/openvswitch
parentopenvswitch: Allow user space to announce ability to accept unaligned Netlink messages (diff)
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openvswitch: Drop user features if old user space attempted to create datapath
Drop user features if an outdated user space instance that does not understand the concept of user_features attempted to create a new datapath. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/openvswitch')
-rw-r--r--net/openvswitch/datapath.c21
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/openvswitch/datapath.c b/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
index 6a9b0cb8a1db..497b2fd36df4 100644
--- a/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
+++ b/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
@@ -1148,6 +1148,18 @@ static struct datapath *lookup_datapath(struct net *net,
return dp ? dp : ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
}
+static void ovs_dp_reset_user_features(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
+{
+ struct datapath *dp;
+
+ dp = lookup_datapath(sock_net(skb->sk), info->userhdr, info->attrs);
+ if (!dp)
+ return;
+
+ WARN(dp->user_features, "Dropping previously announced user features\n");
+ dp->user_features = 0;
+}
+
static void ovs_dp_change(struct datapath *dp, struct nlattr **a)
{
if (a[OVS_DP_ATTR_USER_FEATURES])
@@ -1220,6 +1232,15 @@ static int ovs_dp_cmd_new(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
if (err == -EBUSY)
err = -EEXIST;
+ if (err == -EEXIST) {
+ /* An outdated user space instance that does not understand
+ * the concept of user_features has attempted to create a new
+ * datapath and is likely to reuse it. Drop all user features.
+ */
+ if (info->genlhdr->version < OVS_DP_VER_FEATURES)
+ ovs_dp_reset_user_features(skb, info);
+ }
+
goto err_destroy_ports_array;
}