The inclusion of LSB functions in ovs-lib resets $PATH to
system's default. Then ovs-ctl appends missing directories
including the OVS default ones $sbindir and $bindir.

The problem is that the wrong binaries can be used if they
are available in the system's default locations because of
the PATH wrong order. The same issue happens if one changes
$OVS_BINDIR or $OVS_SBINDIR variables.

The solution is to prepend those directories if they are not
already in PATH.

Reported-by: Mark Gray <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Flavio Leitner <[email protected]>
---
 utilities/ovs-ctl.in | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/utilities/ovs-ctl.in b/utilities/ovs-ctl.in
index 8c5cd7032..8ff500f0d 100644
--- a/utilities/ovs-ctl.in
+++ b/utilities/ovs-ctl.in
@@ -22,7 +22,11 @@ esac
 for dir in "$sbindir" "$bindir" /sbin /bin /usr/sbin /usr/bin; do
     case :$PATH: in
         *:$dir:*) ;;
-        *) PATH=$PATH:$dir ;;
+        *)
+        case $dir in
+            $sbindir | $bindir) PATH=$dir:$PATH ;;
+            *) PATH=$PATH:$dir ;;
+        esac
     esac
 done
 
-- 
2.26.2

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