netdev - [PATCH] openvswitch: change type of UPCALL_PID attribute to NLA

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Date:   Tue, 24 Sep 2019 19:11:52 +0800
From:   Li RongQing <lirongqing@...du.com>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, pshelar@....org
Subject: [PATCH] openvswitch: change type of UPCALL_PID attribute to NLA_UNSPEC

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 <lirongqing@...du.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