userspace openvswitch patch "(dpif-linux: Implement the API
functions to allow multiple handler threads read upcall)"
changes its type from U32 to UNSPEC, but leave the kernel
unchanged
and after kernel 6e237d099fac "(netlink: Relax attr validation
for fixed length types)", this bug is exposed by the below
warning
[ 57.215841] netlink: 'ovs-vswitchd': attribute type 5 has an invalid
length.
Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <lirongq...@baidu.com>
---
net/openvswitch/datapath.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/openvswitch/datapath.c b/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
index dde9d762edee..f30e406fbec5 100644
--- a/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
+++ b/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
@@ -2294,7 +2294,7 @@ static const struct nla_policy
vport_policy[OVS_VPORT_ATTR_MAX + 1] = {
[OVS_VPORT_ATTR_STATS] = { .len = sizeof(struct ovs_vport_stats) },
[OVS_VPORT_ATTR_PORT_NO] = { .type = NLA_U32 },
[OVS_VPORT_ATTR_TYPE] = { .type = NLA_U32 },
- [OVS_VPORT_ATTR_UPCALL_PID] = { .type = NLA_U32 },
+ [OVS_VPORT_ATTR_UPCALL_PID] = { .type = NLA_UNSPEC },
[OVS_VPORT_ATTR_OPTIONS] = { .type = NLA_NESTED },
[OVS_VPORT_ATTR_IFINDEX] = { .type = NLA_U32 },
[OVS_VPORT_ATTR_NETNSID] = { .type = NLA_S32 },
--
2.16.2
