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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Drop user features if an outdated user space instance that does not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>
Thomas Graf 11 years ago
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2 changed files with 30 additions and 1 deletions
  1. 9 1
      include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h
  2. 21 0
      net/openvswitch/datapath.c

+ 9 - 1
include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h

@@ -40,7 +40,15 @@ struct ovs_header {
 
 #define OVS_DATAPATH_FAMILY  "ovs_datapath"
 #define OVS_DATAPATH_MCGROUP "ovs_datapath"
-#define OVS_DATAPATH_VERSION 0x1
+
+/* V2:
+ *   - API users are expected to provide OVS_DP_ATTR_USER_FEATURES
+ *     when creating the datapath.
+ */
+#define OVS_DATAPATH_VERSION 2
+
+/* First OVS datapath version to support features */
+#define OVS_DP_VER_FEATURES 2
 
 enum ovs_datapath_cmd {
 	OVS_DP_CMD_UNSPEC,

+ 21 - 0
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+			/* An outdated user space instance that does not understand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;
 	}