Re: [PATCHv2 net-next 1/9] openvswitch: Serialize acts with original netlink len
From: Pravin Shelar
Date: Wed Aug 05 2015 - 18:30:18 EST
On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 9:49 PM, Joe Stringer <joestringer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Previously, we used the kernel-internal netlink actions length to
> calculate the size of messages to serialize back to userspace.
> However,the sw_flow_actions may not be formatted exactly the same as the
> actions on the wire, so store the original actions length when
> de-serializing and re-use the original length when serializing.
>
> Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joestringer@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> net/openvswitch/datapath.c | 2 +-
> net/openvswitch/flow.h | 1 +
> net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c | 1 +
> 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/openvswitch/datapath.c b/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
> index ffe984f..d5b5473 100644
> --- a/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
> +++ b/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
> @@ -713,7 +713,7 @@ static size_t ovs_flow_cmd_msg_size(const struct sw_flow_actions *acts,
>
> /* OVS_FLOW_ATTR_ACTIONS */
> if (should_fill_actions(ufid_flags))
> - len += nla_total_size(acts->actions_len);
> + len += nla_total_size(acts->orig_len);
>
> return len
> + nla_total_size(sizeof(struct ovs_flow_stats)) /* OVS_FLOW_ATTR_STATS */
> diff --git a/net/openvswitch/flow.h b/net/openvswitch/flow.h
> index b62cdb3..082a87b 100644
> --- a/net/openvswitch/flow.h
> +++ b/net/openvswitch/flow.h
> @@ -144,6 +144,7 @@ struct sw_flow_id {
>
> struct sw_flow_actions {
> struct rcu_head rcu;
> + size_t orig_len; /* From flow_cmd_new netlink actions size */
> u32 actions_len;
> struct nlattr actions[];
> };
> diff --git a/net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c b/net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c
> index a6eb77a..d536fb7 100644
> --- a/net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c
> +++ b/net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c
> @@ -1545,6 +1545,7 @@ static struct sw_flow_actions *nla_alloc_flow_actions(int size, bool log)
> return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
>
> sfa->actions_len = 0;
> + sfa->orig_len = size;
This is getting updated every time datapath action buffer is expanded
(ref: reserve_sfa_size()). So it does not keep original userspace
action length.
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