On 20 Dec 2021, at 16:33, Adrian Moreno wrote:

> On 12/6/21 17:57, Eelco Chaudron wrote:
>> Currently, if a flow reply results in a message which exceeds
>> the maximum reply size, it will assert OVS. This would happen
>> when OVN uses OpenFlow15 to add large flows, and they get read
>> using OpenFlow10 with ovs-ofctl.
>>
>> This patch prevents this and adds a test case to make sure the
>> code behaves as expected.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Eelco Chaudron <[email protected]>
>> ---
>>   lib/ofp-flow.c     |   12 +++++++++++-
>>   tests/ovs-ofctl.at |   19 +++++++++++++++++++
>>   2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/lib/ofp-flow.c b/lib/ofp-flow.c
>> index ff0396845..796699dba 100644
>> --- a/lib/ofp-flow.c
>> +++ b/lib/ofp-flow.c
>> @@ -1254,7 +1254,17 @@ ofputil_append_flow_stats_reply(const struct 
>> ofputil_flow_stats *fs,
>>           OVS_NOT_REACHED();
>>       }
>>  -    ofpmp_postappend(replies, start_ofs);
>> +    if ((reply->size - start_ofs) >
>> +        (UINT16_MAX - ((char *) reply->msg - (char *) reply->header))) {
>> +        /* When this happens, the reply will not fit in a single OFP 
>> message,
>> +         * and we should not append it to the queue. We will log a warning
>> +         * and continue with the next flow stat entry. */
>> +        reply->size = start_ofs;
>> +        VLOG_WARN_RL(&rl, "Flow exceeded the maximum flow statistics reply "
>> +                     "size and was excluded from the response set");
>> +    } else {
>> +        ofpmp_postappend(replies, start_ofs);
>> +    }
>>       fs_->match.flow.tunnel.metadata.tab = orig_tun_table;
>>   }
>>  diff --git a/tests/ovs-ofctl.at b/tests/ovs-ofctl.at
>> index 586e55806..9772094fc 100644
>> --- a/tests/ovs-ofctl.at
>> +++ b/tests/ovs-ofctl.at
>> @@ -3252,3 +3252,22 @@ dnl because we need ovs-vswitchd to have the 
>> controller config before starting
>>   dnl the controller to 'snoop' the OpenFlow messages from beginning
>>   OVS_VSWITCHD_STOP(["/connection failed (No such file or directory)/d"])
>>   AT_CLEANUP
>> +
>> +
>> +AT_SETUP([ovs-ofctl show-flows - Oversized flow])
>> +OVS_VSWITCHD_START
>> +
>> +printf "add 
>> priority=90,icmp,metadata=0x3,nw_dst=11.0.0.1,icmp_type=8,icmp_code=0,reg15=0x8005,metadata=0x1,actions="
>>  > flow.txt
>> +for i in `seq 0 1021`; do printf 
>> "set_field:0x399->reg13,set_field:0x$i->reg15,resubmit(,39),"; done >> 
>> flow.txt
>> +echo "resubmit(,39)" >> flow.txt
>> +
>> +AT_CHECK([ovs-ofctl -O OpenFlow15 add-flows br0 flow.txt])
>> +
>> +AT_CHECK([ovs-ofctl -O OpenFlow10 dump-flows br0 | ofctl_strip | sed 
>> '/NXST_FLOW/d' | sort], [0], [])
>> +OVS_WAIT_UNTIL([grep -q "ofp_flow|WARN|Flow exceeded the maximum flow 
>> statistics reply size and was excluded from the response set" 
>> ovs-vswitchd.log])
>> +
>> +dnl cat flow.txt > expout
>> +dnl AT_CHECK([ovs-ofctl -O OpenFlow15 dump-flows br0 | ofctl_strip | sed 
>> '/OFPST_FLOW/d' | sort], [0], [expout])
>> +
>> +OVS_VSWITCHD_STOP(["/|WARN|/d"])
>> +AT_CLEANUP
>>
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>
> Reviewed and manually tested this patch. Verified excessively big flows are 
> skipped while the rest are sent properly. Although it's not ideal to skip a 
> flow, I don't see any better way to respond to this corner-case.

Thanks for the review, and yes, I agree, but it’s better than a crash.

> Acked-by: Adrian Moreno <[email protected]>
>
>
> -- 
> Adrián Moreno

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