On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 11:59 PM, Joe Stringer <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 6 September 2017 at 15:24, Andy Zhou <[email protected]> wrote:
>> The bug can cause ovs-vswitchd to crash (due to assert) when it is
>> set up with a passive controller connection. Since only active
>> connections are kept, the passive connection status update should be
>> ignored and not trigger asserts.
>>
>
> Fixes: 85c55772a453 ("bridge: Fix controller status update")

Thanks. Will add to the commit message.
>
>> Reported-by: Josh Bailey <[email protected]>
>> Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou <[email protected]>
>> ---
>
> This bug was reported on v2.8.0, so will need backport to branch-2.8.

Will keep this in mind when pushing.
>
>>  AUTHORS.rst       |  1 +
>>  vswitchd/bridge.c | 12 +++++++-----
>>  2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/AUTHORS.rst b/AUTHORS.rst
>> index cb0cd91b21ba..e304609b2b27 100644
>> --- a/AUTHORS.rst
>> +++ b/AUTHORS.rst
>> @@ -389,6 +389,7 @@ Ben Basler                      [email protected]
>>  Bhargava Shastry                [email protected]
>>  Bob Ball                        [email protected]
>>  Brad Hall                       [email protected]
>> +Brailey Josh                    [email protected]
>>  Brandon Heller                  [email protected]
>>  Brendan Kelley                  [email protected]
>>  Brent Salisbury                 [email protected]
>> diff --git a/vswitchd/bridge.c b/vswitchd/bridge.c
>> index a8cbae78cb23..00f86182c820 100644
>> --- a/vswitchd/bridge.c
>> +++ b/vswitchd/bridge.c
>> @@ -2720,11 +2720,13 @@ refresh_controller_status(void)
>>              struct ofproto_controller_info *cinfo =
>>                  shash_find_data(&info, cfg->target);
>>
>> -            ovs_assert(cinfo);
>> -            ovsrec_controller_set_is_connected(cfg, cinfo->is_connected);
>> -            const char *role = ofp12_controller_role_to_str(cinfo->role);
>> -            ovsrec_controller_set_role(cfg, role);
>> -            ovsrec_controller_set_status(cfg, &cinfo->pairs);
>> +            /* cinfo is NULL when 'cfg->target' is a passive connection.  */
>> +            if (cinfo) {
>> +                ovsrec_controller_set_is_connected(cfg, 
>> cinfo->is_connected);
>> +                const char *role = 
>> ofp12_controller_role_to_str(cinfo->role);
>> +                ovsrec_controller_set_role(cfg, role);
>> +                ovsrec_controller_set_status(cfg, &cinfo->pairs);
>> +            }
>
> Prior to commit 85c55772a453f, the following lines were in the alternative 
> case:
>             ovsrec_controller_set_is_connected(cfg, false);
>             ovsrec_controller_set_role(cfg, NULL);
>             ovsrec_controller_set_status(cfg, NULL);
>
> Should we update the records in the else case here like was previously done?

I don't think it is necessary. Those are the default values and we are
not changing them.
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