From: Pravin B Shelar <pshe...@nicira.com> Flow alloc needs to initialize unmasked key pointer. Otherwise it can crash kernel trying to free random unmasked-key pointer.
general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP 3.19.0-rc6-net-next+ #457 Hardware name: Supermicro X7DWU/X7DWU, BIOS 1.1 04/30/2008 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8111df0e>] [<ffffffff8111df0e>] kfree+0xac/0x196 Call Trace: [<ffffffffa060bd87>] flow_free+0x21/0x59 [openvswitch] [<ffffffffa060bde0>] ovs_flow_free+0x21/0x23 [openvswitch] [<ffffffffa0605b4a>] ovs_packet_cmd_execute+0x2f3/0x35f [openvswitch] [<ffffffffa0605995>] ? ovs_packet_cmd_execute+0x13e/0x35f [openvswitch] [<ffffffff811fe6fb>] ? nla_parse+0x4f/0xec [<ffffffff8139a2fc>] genl_family_rcv_msg+0x26d/0x2c9 [<ffffffff8107620f>] ? __lock_acquire+0x90e/0x9aa [<ffffffff8139a3be>] genl_rcv_msg+0x66/0x89 [<ffffffff8139a358>] ? genl_family_rcv_msg+0x2c9/0x2c9 [<ffffffff81399591>] netlink_rcv_skb+0x3e/0x95 [<ffffffff81399898>] ? genl_rcv+0x18/0x37 [<ffffffff813998a7>] genl_rcv+0x27/0x37 [<ffffffff81399033>] netlink_unicast+0x103/0x191 [<ffffffff81399382>] netlink_sendmsg+0x2c1/0x310 [<ffffffff811007ad>] ? might_fault+0x50/0xa0 [<ffffffff8135c773>] do_sock_sendmsg+0x5f/0x7a [<ffffffff8135c799>] sock_sendmsg+0xb/0xd [<ffffffff8135cacf>] ___sys_sendmsg+0x1a3/0x218 [<ffffffff8113e54b>] ? get_close_on_exec+0x86/0x86 [<ffffffff8115a9d0>] ? fsnotify+0x32c/0x348 [<ffffffff8115a720>] ? fsnotify+0x7c/0x348 [<ffffffff8113e5f5>] ? __fget+0xaa/0xbf [<ffffffff8113e54b>] ? get_close_on_exec+0x86/0x86 [<ffffffff8135cccd>] __sys_sendmsg+0x3d/0x5e [<ffffffff8135cd02>] SyS_sendmsg+0x14/0x16 [<ffffffff81411852>] system_call_fastpath+0x12/0x17 Reported-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerl...@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshe...@nicira.com> --- datapath/flow_table.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/datapath/flow_table.c b/datapath/flow_table.c index 311e5ee..9a27bea 100644 --- a/datapath/flow_table.c +++ b/datapath/flow_table.c @@ -92,6 +92,8 @@ struct sw_flow *ovs_flow_alloc(void) flow->sf_acts = NULL; flow->mask = NULL; + flow->id.ufid_len = 0; + flow->id.unmasked_key = NULL; flow->stats_last_writer = NUMA_NO_NODE; /* Initialize the default stat node. */ -- 1.7.10.4 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev