> On Jan 5, 2017, at 4:48 PM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 04:03:17PM -0800, Jarno Rajahalme wrote:
>> 
>>> On Jan 4, 2017, at 11:03 PM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 07:21:44PM -0800, Jarno Rajahalme wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On Dec 21, 2016, at 2:36 PM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 04:49:00PM -0800, Jarno Rajahalme wrote:
>>>>> I'd be more comfortable if nx_stack_pop() had assertions to check for
>>>>> underflow.
>>>> 
>>>> I don’t think OVS should assert fail if controller issues one pop
>>>> too many? Do you mean that current users of nx_stack_pop() do not
>>>> check for NULL return? I had a look and think that setting “*bytes”
>>>> to zero when returning NULL should be enough for all users.
>>> 
>>> It appears to me that if stack->size is greater than 0 but less than the
>>> number of bytes indicated by its last byte, then it will corrupt the
>>> ofpbuf size and that this will later cause some kind of failure that
>>> will be harder to debug than an assertion failure. 
>>> 
>> 
>> OK, now i got it.  This is just to guard against (future) bugs in OVS itself.
> 
> Yes.
> 
>>>>> In ofputil_decode_packet_in_private(), it's probably worth checking the
>>>>> format of the stack we pull from the payload, since a badly formatted
>>>>> stack can segfault us (if we leave out assertions) or assert-fail us (if
>>>>> we include them).
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> What do you mean with badly formatted stack? Zero-sized property? IMO
>>>> even that would be properly pushed and popped from the stack, storing
>>>> only the length (of zero) in the stack.
>>> 
>>> I mean that if the property contains, for example, a single byte with
>>> value 0xff, then it's badly formatted because we can pop off a length
>>> (255) but then popping off that number of bytes will underflow.
>> 
>> I did not change the encoding of the stack as properties, so each
>> value in the stack is still encoded as a separate property, where the
>> (aligned) value length is used as the property length. 
> 
> I guess I forgot that.
> 
> Thanks, that's fine then.
> 
>> ofpprop_pull() does the length checking for the properties and the
>> current code in ofputil_decode_packet_in_private() assert fails on any
>> error, which is not good, as a controller bug would crash OVS?
> 
> That's bad.  Maybe the fix is as simple as this, though.
> 
> diff --git a/lib/ofp-util.c b/lib/ofp-util.c
> index 156d8d2..421b9d7 100644
> --- a/lib/ofp-util.c
> +++ b/lib/ofp-util.c
> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
> /*
> - * Copyright (c) 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 
> Nicira, Inc.
> + * Copyright (c) 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 
> Nicira, Inc.
>  *
>  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
>  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
> @@ -4061,7 +4061,9 @@ ofputil_decode_packet_in_private(const struct 
> ofp_header *oh, bool loose,
>         uint64_t type;
> 
>         error = ofpprop_pull(&continuation, &payload, &type);
> -        ovs_assert(!error);
> +        if (error) {
> +            break;
> +        }
> 
>         switch (type) {
>         case NXCPT_BRIDGE:
> @@ -4124,7 +4126,7 @@ ofputil_decode_packet_in_private(const struct 
> ofp_header *oh, bool loose,
>         ofputil_packet_in_private_destroy(pin);
>     }
> 
> -    return 0;
> +    return error;
> }
> 
> /* Frees data in 'pin' that is dynamically allocated by
> 

I folded this in to v3.

  Jarno

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