netdev - Re: [PATCH net] openvswitch: packet messages need their own probe attribtue

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Date:	Wed, 14 Jan 2015 13:22:29 -0800
From:	Pravin Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com>
To:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
Cc:	Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Sander Eikelenboom <linux@...elenboom.it>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"dev@...nvswitch.org" <dev@...nvswitch.org>,
	Jarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme@...ira.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] openvswitch: packet messages need their own probe attribtue

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 5:56 AM, Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch> wrote:
> User space is currently sending a OVS_FLOW_ATTR_PROBE for both flow
> and packet messages. This leads to an out-of-bounds access in
> ovs_packet_cmd_execute() because OVS_FLOW_ATTR_PROBE >
> OVS_PACKET_ATTR_MAX.
>
> Introduce a new OVS_PACKET_ATTR_PROBE with the same numeric value
> as OVS_FLOW_ATTR_PROBE to grow the range of accepted packet attributes
> while maintaining to be binary compatible with existing OVS binaries.
>
> Fixes: 05da589 ("openvswitch: Add support for OVS_FLOW_ATTR_PROBE.")
> Reported-by: Sander Eikelenboom <linux@...elenboom.it>
> Tracked-down-by: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
> ---

Looks good.
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com>
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