openvswitch: change type of UPCALL_PID attribute to NLA_UNSPEC
authorLi RongQing <lirongqing@baidu.com>
Tue, 24 Sep 2019 11:11:52 +0000 (19:11 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 5 Oct 2019 10:47:41 +0000 (12:47 +0200)
commitad7645633ab75b689cf8f9b1172b9ee84f3202cf
tree1105999b8c44d1ee4f57cfa1a0d9770fecd72120
parent6f492e8010338dc2584a711b0cae388fd36120a5
openvswitch: change type of UPCALL_PID attribute to NLA_UNSPEC

[ Upstream commit ea8564c865299815095bebeb4b25bef474218e4c ]

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.

Fixes: 5cd667b0a456 ("openvswitch: Allow each vport to have an array of 'port_id's")
Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <lirongqing@baidu.com>
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/openvswitch/datapath.c