On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 02:10:17AM +0000, Peng He wrote:
> OVS allows overlapping megaflows, as long as the actions of these
> megaflows are equal. However, the current implementation of action
> modification relies on flow_lookup instead of ufid, this could result
> in looking up a wrong megaflow and make the ukeys and megaflows inconsistent
> 
> Just like the test case in the patch, at first we have a rule with the
> prefix:
> 
> 10.1.2.0/24
> 
> and we will get a megaflow with prefixes 10.1.2.2/24 when a packet with IP
> 10.1.2.2 is received.
> 
> Then suppose we change the rule into 10.1.0.0/16. OVS prefers to keep the
> 10.1.2.2/24 megaflow and just changes its action instead of extending
> the prefix into 10.1.2.2/16.
> 
> then suppose we have a 10.1.0.2 packet, since it misses the megaflow,
> this time, we will have an overlapping megaflow with the right prefix:
> 10.1.0.2/16
> 
> now we have two megaflows:
> 10.1.2.2/24
> 10.1.0.2/16
> 
> last, suppose we have changed the ruleset again. The revalidator this
> time still decides to change the actions of both megaflows instead of
> deleting them.
> 
> The dpif_netdev_flow_put will search the megaflow to modify with unmasked
> keys, however it might lookup the wrong megaflow as the key 10.1.2.2 matches
> both 10.1.2.2/24 and 10.1.0.2/16!
> 
> This patch changes the megaflow lookup code in modification path into
> relying the ufid to find the correct megaflow instead of key lookup.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peng He <hepeng.0...@bytedance.com>

Hi Peng,

I see one failure in CI. It is the " compacting online - cluster "
test for "liunx clang test asan". Is this something we should be concerned
about?

Link: 
https://github.com/ovsrobot/ovs/actions/runs/5238809864/jobs/9458063244#step:11:5573
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