From: Li RongQing lirongqing@baidu.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@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 | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/net/openvswitch/datapath.c +++ b/net/openvswitch/datapath.c @@ -2218,7 +2218,7 @@ 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 }, };