On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 3:19 PM Numan Siddique <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 7, 2021 at 9:03 AM Mark Michelson <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On 5/7/21 8:03 AM, Dumitru Ceara wrote:
> > > On 5/6/21 10:49 PM, Mark Michelson wrote:
> > >> ACLs and logical router policies leave the user open to crafting
> > >> creative matches, such as this one:
> > >>
> > >> (ip4.dst == 172.27.0.65/32) && ip4.src == $as && ip4.dst != 10.128.0.0/11
> > >>
> > >> Ideally, that final part of the match would just be omitted, but in some
> > >> CMSes this kind of thing gets generated. If we zero in on the ip4.dst
> > >> part of the match, then initially, this gets parsed into the expression:
> > >>
> > >> ip4.dst == 0xac1b0041 && ip4.dst[21..31] != 0x54
> > >>
> > >> After annotation, simplification, and evaluating conditions, this
> > >> becomes:
> > >>
> > >> ip4.dst == 0xac1b0041 && (ip4.dst[21] || ip4.dst[22] || !ip4.dst[23] ||
> > >> ip4.dst[24] || !ip4.dst[25] || ip4.dst[26] || !ip4.dst[27] ||
> > >> ip4.dst[28] || ip4.dst[29] || ip4.dst[30] || ip4.dst[31])
> > >>
> > >> At this point, we call expr_normalize(), which then calls expr_sort().
> > >> expr_sort() attempts to turn expressions of the type
> > >>
> > >> a && (b || c || d)
> > >>
> > >> into
> > >>
> > >> ab && ac && ad
> > >
> > > Hmm, I guess you meant "ab || ac || ad" here, right?
> >
> > Whoops, yes that's correct. I'll amend the commit log when I merge if
> > this gets approved. If a v3 is required for some other reason, then I'll
> > amend the commit log in that version.
> >
> > >
> > >>
> > >> In this particular case, it turns the expression into
> > >>
> > >> (ip4.dst == 0xac1b0041 || ip4.dst == 0xac1b0041 || ip4.dst == 0xac1b0041
> > >> || ip4.dst == 0xac1b0041 || ip4.dst == 0xac1b0041)
> > >>
> > >> In other words, the same expression repeated 5 times.
> > >>
> > >> Because the address set in the original match expands to multiple
> > >> addresses, and it is ANDed with the above disjunction, a conjunctive
> > >> match is created. This results in the following OF flow being created:
> > >>
> > >> nw_dst=172.27.0.65,action=conjunction(2,1/2),conjunction(2,1/2),
> > >>                            conjunction(2,1/2),conjunction(2,1/2),
> > >>                        conjunction(2,1/2)
> > >>
> > >> If multiple ACLs or logical router policies perform similar matches,
> > >> this can cause the number of conjunction actions on the flow to balloon,
> > >> possibly even reaching the point where the flow size is larger than 64K.
> > >>
> > >> This patch seeks to fix the issue by crushing the resulting OR that is
> > >> created from expr_sort(). In the example match, this changes the ip4.dst
> > >> match to just:
> > >>
> > >> ip4.dst == 0xac1b0041
> > >>
> > >> Because it is now a single comparison, there's no conjunctive match
> > >> needed, and the generated OF is as expected.
> > >
> > > Thanks for the very detailed commit log, it really makes the problem
> > > you're trying to solve very clear!
> > >
> > >>
> > >> Reported at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1955161
> > >> Signed-off-by: Mark Michelson <[email protected]>
> > >> ---
> > >
> > > I think the change is OK, but it might be good for other people to
> > > review this too before pushing this patch.  With that in mind:
> > >
> > > Acked-by: Dumitru Ceara <[email protected]>
>
> Can you please add a test case for this ?
>
> Either you can enhance this test case here -
> https://github.com/ovn-org/ovn/blob/master/tests/ovn.at#L716
> or add a new one.
>
> With a test case added:
> Acked-by: Numan Siddique <[email protected]>

Oops.  My bad. There's already a test case.  Please ignore my comment.

Thanks
Numan

>
> Thanks
> Numan
>
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Dumitru
> > >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > dev mailing list
> > [email protected]
> > https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
> >
_______________________________________________
dev mailing list
[email protected]
https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev

Reply via email to