On Fri, Oct 3, 2025 at 2:19 PM Ilya Maximets <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 9/19/25 9:27 PM, Mike Pattrick via dev wrote:
> > Currently while handling the 24 bit VNI field in VXLAN code,
> > netdev-offload-dpdk will actually read and write 32 bits. The byte that
> > is overwritten is reserved and supposed to be set to zero anyways, so
> > this is mostly harmless.
> >
> > However, Openscanhub correctly identified this as a buffer overrun. Now
> > use ovs_16aligned_be32 to access the field as a 32bit integer.
> >
> > Reported-at: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/FDP-1122
> > Signed-off-by: Mike Pattrick <[email protected]>
> > ---
> > v3:
> >  - Change from memcpy to ovs_16aligned_be32
> > v4:
> >  - Correct outdated commit message
> > ---
> >  lib/netdev-offload-dpdk.c | 17 ++++++++---------
> >  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/lib/netdev-offload-dpdk.c b/lib/netdev-offload-dpdk.c
> > index 16f863284..82461fbd9 100644
> > --- a/lib/netdev-offload-dpdk.c
> > +++ b/lib/netdev-offload-dpdk.c
> > @@ -607,17 +607,16 @@ dump_flow_pattern(struct ds *s,
> >      } else if (item->type == RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_VXLAN) {
> >          const struct rte_flow_item_vxlan *vxlan_spec = item->spec;
> >          const struct rte_flow_item_vxlan *vxlan_mask = item->mask;
> > -        ovs_be32 spec_vni, mask_vni;
> >
> >          ds_put_cstr(s, "vxlan ");
> >          if (vxlan_spec) {
> >              if (!vxlan_mask) {
> >                  vxlan_mask = &rte_flow_item_vxlan_mask;
> >              }
> > -            spec_vni = get_unaligned_be32(ALIGNED_CAST(ovs_be32 *,
> > -
>  vxlan_spec->vni));
> > -            mask_vni = get_unaligned_be32(ALIGNED_CAST(ovs_be32 *,
> > -
>  vxlan_mask->vni));
> > +            ovs_be32 spec_vni = get_16aligned_be32(
> > +                &ALIGNED_CAST(struct vxlanhdr *, vxlan_spec)->vx_vni);
>
> Why casting to the struct vxlanhdr and not just use the hdr.vx_vni
> that is already in the rte_flow_item_vxlan?
>

Accessing that as a pointer resulted in a different compiler warning for
unaligned pointer value in a packed struct.

-M


>
> > +            ovs_be32 mask_vni = get_16aligned_be32(
> > +                &ALIGNED_CAST(struct vxlanhdr *, vxlan_mask)->vx_vni);
> >              DUMP_PATTERN_ITEM(vxlan_mask->vni, false, "vni", "%"PRIu32,
> >                                ntohl(spec_vni) >> 8, ntohl(mask_vni) >>
> 8, 0);
> >          }
> > @@ -695,8 +694,8 @@ dump_vxlan_encap(struct ds *s, const struct
> rte_flow_item *items)
> >      if (vxlan) {
> >          ovs_be32 vni;
> >
> > -        vni = get_unaligned_be32(ALIGNED_CAST(ovs_be32 *,
> > -                                              vxlan->vni));
> > +        vni = get_16aligned_be32(&ALIGNED_CAST(struct vxlanhdr *,
> > +                                               vxlan)->vx_vni);
> >          ds_put_format(s, "vni %"PRIu32" ", ntohl(vni) >> 8);
> >      }
> >      if (udp) {
> > @@ -1300,9 +1299,9 @@ parse_vxlan_match(struct flow_patterns *patterns,
> >      vx_spec = xzalloc(sizeof *vx_spec);
> >      vx_mask = xzalloc(sizeof *vx_mask);
> >
> > -    put_unaligned_be32(ALIGNED_CAST(ovs_be32 *, vx_spec->vni),
> > +    put_16aligned_be32(&ALIGNED_CAST(struct vxlanhdr *,
> vx_spec)->vx_vni,
> >                         htonl(ntohll(match->flow.tunnel.tun_id) << 8));
> > -    put_unaligned_be32(ALIGNED_CAST(ovs_be32 *, vx_mask->vni),
> > +    put_16aligned_be32(&ALIGNED_CAST(struct vxlanhdr *,
> vx_mask)->vx_vni,
> >                         htonl(ntohll(match->wc.masks.tunnel.tun_id) <<
> 8));
> >
> >      consumed_masks->tunnel.tun_id = 0;
>
>
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