This patch enhances a system traffic test to prevent regression on
the tunnel metadata table (tun_table) handling with frozen state.
Without a proper fix this test can crash ovs-vswitchd due to a
use-after-free bug on tun_table.
These are the timed sequence of how this bug is triggered:
- Adds an OpenFlow rule in OVS that matches Geneve tunnel metadata that
contains a controller action.
- When the first packet matches the aforementioned OpenFlow rule,
during the miss upcall, OVS stores a pointer to the tun_table (that
decodes the Geneve tunnel metadata) in a frozen state and pushes down
a datapath flow into kernel datapath.
- Issues a add-tlv-map command to reprogram the tun_table on OVS.
OVS frees the old tun_table and create a new tun_table.
- A subsequent packet hits the kernel datapath flow again. Since
there is a controller action associated with that flow, it triggers
slow path controller upcall.
- In the slow path controller upcall, OVS derives the tun_table
from the frozen state, which points to the old tun_table that is
already being freed at this time point.
- In order to access the tunnel metadata, OVS uses the invalid
pointer that points to the old tun_table and triggers the core dump.
Signed-off-by: Yi-Hung Wei <yihung....@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Yifeng Sun <pkusunyif...@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Yi-Hung Wei <yihung....@gmail.com>
---
v1-v2: Improve the test based on William's review, thanks.
tests/system-traffic.at | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tests/system-traffic.at b/tests/system-traffic.at
index 4a39c929c207..3ed03d92b566 100644
--- a/tests/system-traffic.at
+++ b/tests/system-traffic.at
@@ -611,6 +611,16 @@ NS_CHECK_EXEC([at_ns0], [ping -q -c 3 10.1.1.100 |
FORMAT_PING], [0], [dnl
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
])
+dnl Test OVS handles TLV map modifictions properly when restores frozen state.
+NS_CHECK_EXEC([at_ns0], [ping 10.1.1.100 > /dev/null &])
+
+AT_CHECK([ovs-ofctl add-tlv-map br0
"{class=0xffff,type=0x88,len=4}->tun_metadata1"])
+sleep 1
+AT_CHECK([ovs-ofctl add-tlv-map br0
"{class=0xffff,type=0x99,len=4}->tun_metadata2"])
+sleep 1
+AT_CHECK([ovs-ofctl add-tlv-map br0
"{class=0xffff,type=0xaa,len=4}->tun_metadata3"])
+sleep 1
+
OVS_APP_EXIT_AND_WAIT([ovs-ofctl])
OVS_TRAFFIC_VSWITCHD_STOP
AT_CLEANUP
--
2.7.4
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