linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.4 23/99] openvswitch: change type of UPCALL_PID attribute to NLA

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Message-Id: <20191003154305.326578184@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Thu,  3 Oct 2019 17:52:46 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Li RongQing <lirongqing@...du.com>,
        Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@....org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: [PATCH 4.4 23/99] openvswitch: change type of UPCALL_PID attribute to NLA_UNSPEC

From: Li RongQing <lirongqing@...du.com>

[ 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@...du.com>
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@....org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 net/openvswitch/datapath.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
+++ b/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
@@ -2152,7 +2152,7 @@ static const struct nla_policy vport_pol
 	[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 },
 };