[PATCH net] net: openvswitch: don't send internal clone attribute to the userspace.

From: Ilya Maximets
Date: Mon Apr 04 2022 - 06:42:06 EST


'OVS_CLONE_ATTR_EXEC' is an internal attribute that is used for
performance optimization inside the kernel. It's added by the kernel
while parsing user-provided actions and should not be sent during the
flow dump as it's not part of the uAPI.

The issue doesn't cause any significant problems to the ovs-vswitchd
process, because reported actions are not really used in the
application lifecycle and only supposed to be shown to a human via
ovs-dpctl flow dump. However, the action list is still incorrect
and causes the following error if the user wants to look at the
datapath flows:

# ovs-dpctl add-dp system@ovs-system
# ovs-dpctl add-flow "<flow match>" "clone(ct(commit),0)"
# ovs-dpctl dump-flows
<flow match>, packets:0, bytes:0, used:never,
actions:clone(bad length 4, expected -1 for: action0(01 00 00 00),
ct(commit),0)

With the fix:

# ovs-dpctl dump-flows
<flow match>, packets:0, bytes:0, used:never,
actions:clone(ct(commit),0)

Additionally fixed an incorrect attribute name in the comment.

Fixes: b233504033db ("openvswitch: kernel datapath clone action")
Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@xxxxxxx>
---
net/openvswitch/actions.c | 2 +-
net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c | 4 +++-
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/openvswitch/actions.c b/net/openvswitch/actions.c
index 7056cb1b8ba0..1b5d73079dc9 100644
--- a/net/openvswitch/actions.c
+++ b/net/openvswitch/actions.c
@@ -1051,7 +1051,7 @@ static int clone(struct datapath *dp, struct sk_buff *skb,
int rem = nla_len(attr);
bool dont_clone_flow_key;

- /* The first action is always 'OVS_CLONE_ATTR_ARG'. */
+ /* The first action is always 'OVS_CLONE_ATTR_EXEC'. */
clone_arg = nla_data(attr);
dont_clone_flow_key = nla_get_u32(clone_arg);
actions = nla_next(clone_arg, &rem);
diff --git a/net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c b/net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c
index cc282a58b75b..dbdcaaa27f5b 100644
--- a/net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c
+++ b/net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c
@@ -3458,7 +3458,9 @@ static int clone_action_to_attr(const struct nlattr *attr,
if (!start)
return -EMSGSIZE;

- err = ovs_nla_put_actions(nla_data(attr), rem, skb);
+ /* Skipping the OVS_CLONE_ATTR_EXEC that is always the first attribute. */
+ attr = nla_next(nla_data(attr), &rem);
+ err = ovs_nla_put_actions(attr, rem, skb);

if (err)
nla_nest_cancel(skb, start);
--
2.34.1